similarly, microsoft and facebook partnered in november 2013 to sponsor the internet bug bounty, a program to offer rewards for reporting hacks and exploits for a broad range of internet-related software. in 2017, github and the ford foundation sponsored the initiative, which is managed by volunteers from uber, microsoft, facebook, adobe, and hackerone. the software covered by the ibb includes adobe flash, python, ruby, php, django, ruby on rails, perl, openssl, nginx, apache http server, and phabricator. in addition, the program offered rewards for broader exploits affecting widely used operating systems and web browsers, as well as the internet as a whole.