The $500 reward is hilarious.

I don't remember Microsoft seeing an exploit shown and responding "we can't figure this out, can you give us a hint for $500?"

Can't wait to send this to my friend who thinks Firefox is 100% safe and bug-free.

By the way, Microsoft puts up $5,000,000 in rewards to catch hacker-criminals.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/default.mspx

Those efforts directly led to the capture of the Sasser worm creator.