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Re:United Airlines Bug Bounty: An experience in reporting a ... by tptacek on Sunday November 22, 2015 @08:31PM (#10612356)
Why are you looking for off-site vulnerabilities? Would this be something you did even if they weren't running a bounty?

You should be careful testing sites out of scope. The bounty gives you implied permission to test for vulnerabilities on sites in-scope, but "I was just security testing" is demonstrably not sufficient to insulate you from civil litigation or even criminal charges --- you would probably win in court, but it would be ruinously expensive.

Re:United Airlines Bug Bounty: An experience in reporting a ... by girvo on Sunday November 22, 2015 @09:20PM (#10612503)
What are your thoughts on the bug bounties that have extremely limited scopes, considering the in-scope domains typically rely on the out-of-scope parts?
Re:United Airlines Bug Bounty: An experience in reporting a ... by eyeareque on Monday November 23, 2015 @02:37AM (#10613318)
They are not explicit in what domains or ip addresses are in scope. This makes it difficult. You'd expect them to have a list of approved sites for testing.. But they don't (or didn't when I tested.)