Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty

If the sour taste has still not left your mouth after Ring's Super Bowl ad, there is a $10,000 prize for anyone who can find a security flaw in the company's cameras.

The bounty was launched by the Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit set up to raise awareness of consumers' lack of ownership over their tech. The organization will pay $10,000 up front and match community donations up to an additional $10,000 for eligible submissions.

Rewards won't be handed out for just any security vulnerability, though. In keeping with Fulu's ethos, the winner will be the first to figure out a way to run a Ring camera system locally, and block any data from being transmitted to Amazon's servers.

"The problem lies in the software that runs on [Ring] devices and directs video to be sent back to Amazon's servers," said Kevin ...