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Re:Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket by mike-cardwell on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @10:26AM (#10079344)
Here's a picture of their current team: https://getpocket.com/jobs - Here's a list of 7 other positions they're currently hiring for - https://boards.greenhouse.io/pocket

This isn't some free service being run out of the goodness of somebodys heart. This is a company, that wants to make money. If a company has that many employees, they can afford a bug bounty program too.

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Re:Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket by balladeer on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @12:27PM (#10080117)
Not to forget the data they are getting:

1. What people are reading

2. What they will read

3. What they have read

4. What they are just bookmarking/RILing and not reading

5. Etc etc.

That's valuable data imho.

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Re:Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket by semi-extrinsic on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @05:07PM (#10082199)
> they can afford a bug bounty program too

Maybe they're just being evil, you know, like Oracle.

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Re:Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket by alimbada on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @05:48AM (#10084488)
I didn't say it was being run out of the goodness of someone's heart. That's why they need money, to pay the bills. Having infrastructure to deal with that many users on a popular service doesn't come cheap.
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