---
id: 2392
title: "Hacker Handle Bounty"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/04/01/hacker-handle-bounty/"
published_at: "2016-04-01T11:50:44Z"
tags: ["security-culture", "security-industry", "community", "humor", "culture", "meta", "april-fools", "hacker-culture", "identity", "trail-of-bits", "hacker-handles", "handles", "bounty"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2392"
lang: en
---

# Hacker Handle Bounty

## Summary

A tongue-in-cheek Trail of Bits post offers bounties for security researchers to retire their hacker handles, with points, challenge coin rewards, and a nominee list including Mudge and Dark Tangent.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2016-04-01T11:50:44Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/04/01/hacker-handle-bounty/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2392