Contest organizers increased sixfold the prizes given out for successful zero-day browser exploits during the CanSecWest security conference. The prizes sounded tempting — more than $1 million was available — but the net result was that fewer contestants participated. This despite the fact that potential participants had two different contests in which to compete. The dearth of exploits says less about how secure browsers are than it does about the gamesmanship involved in the competitions and about the bounty that exploits yield on the open market. In all, the two competitions combined handed out $210,000 in prize money, up from $30,000 last year.”]