VLC has become one of the most popular, flexible and powerful multimedia players to be able to play all kinds of formats, even when other players cannot with certain codec, it is most likely with VLC you can play those stubborn videos. It is also free and available for various operating systems, among which is undoubtedly GNU / Linux and also for Android. If you still do not know it, I recommend that you try it and take a look at the official website.
Well now we have known that the European Commission is willing to invest money in the form of rewards to anyone who can improve the security of the successful media player. Before the end of the year, the EC already announced its first round of awards to improve and audit security in open source and free software projects (FOSSA). If you are one of those who has detected certain security problems or vulnerabilities, you can report them to earn those rewards.
The money contributed starts at $ 100 for reporting low-severity errors up to $ 2000 if the vulnerability you report is critical. Therefore they are not negligible figures that we can win. In order to be eligible for them, of course, we must detect the security problem in the VLC Media Player and report it to this other link. Obviously the budget they have is not infinite, since they have € 60.000 to distribute among collaborators.
The truth is that this is nothing new in the world of computer security, a multitude of economic rewards are offered to those who manage to find vulnerabilities in some projects, as also happened with OpenSSL. And many public administrations, and the European Commission in this case, are committed to investing money to improve these projects that affect us all. But unfortunately not all companies take it well when you report a vulnerability to them ...