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Joining the Hunt Chapter 1
The Benefits of Bug Bounty Programs
The web is explodingbmore people are using it to do more, in more varied ways, than at
any point in its short history.
The phone is a perfect example of the rise of digital life. Since its invention at the end of the
20th century, it's expanded from a minor technical elite to over sixty percent of the world's
population d more than five billion people are slated to have phones by the end of 2019.
Our tiny pocket computers have conquered the world in under 30 years. Like the Big Bang,
phone usage hasn't exploded so much as expanded at a stupendous rate, inflating to
encompass the majority of the world's population. From the landline void came the spark
of a mobile, unbounded future, and almost as quickly as the idea was conceived, it was
realized.
The following chart from the UN's 2015 study on its progress towards the Millennium
Goals captures the extent to which phone ownership grew to encompass nearly everyone in
the world just through the early 2010s:
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