Google's $20,000 was as safe at Pwn2Own Wednesday as if it had been in the bank. The search giant had promised to pay $20,000 to the first researcher who broke into Chrome on the hacking contest's opening day.
But no one took up Google's offer.

"The first contestant was a no-show," said Aaron Portnoy, manager of HP TippingPoint's security research team, and Pwn2Own's organizer. "And the other team wanted to work on their BlackBerry vulnerability. So it doesn't look like anyone will try Chrome."

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