Project Zero Prize Conclusion
Summary: Google's Project Zero Prize, announced September 13, 2016, concluded with no prizes awarded after receiving no valid entries or bugs; everything submitted was spam or did not resemble a contest entry. Project Zero attributed the outcome to the difficulty of finding fully remote Android bugs without user interaction, competition from other contests that allowed user interaction, and a prize amount that may have been too low for the bugs required.
What you should know: Some participants reportedly held back bugs for other contests with lower prize amounts rather than file them, accepting the risk that someone else might report them first - a reminder that reward structure, not just prize size, decides where vulnerability research gets reported.
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