Hackers loom large in people's imaginations often because of film and TV depictions of hooded figures typing furiously to crack into some top-secret vault somewhere. But not every hacker is a criminal and more companies solicit so-called "white hat" hackers to break through their security to show them where their weaknesses lie, paying them with "bug bounties." Big companies can pay extremely handsomely for bug bounties. Apple recently offered a US$1 million (NZ$1.6 million) bounty to anyone who can crack into an iPhone using a specific hack. Business Insider exchanged emails with two young hackers who became ... (full story)