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A comment on Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram security flaw.

Re:Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram sec... by porter on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @05:43PM (#11624476)
Awesome kid, but how was this risk only worth $10k to facebook? Needs a few more zeros behind it.
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Re:Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram sec... by porter on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:01PM (#11624596)
no idea why this is getting downvoted.
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Re:Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram sec... by tptacek on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:02PM (#11624605)
Because it's an extraordinarily silly comment. If Facebook hadn't paid $10,000 for this bug, the next bidder in line would have been unlikely to pay more than $50.
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Re:Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram sec... by dfc on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:10PM (#11624656)
Vickrey auctions to the rescue.
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Re:Facebook rewarded a 10-year-old for finding Instagram sec... by voltagex_ on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:04PM (#11624624)
Perhaps it's because you're being unrealistic? A version of this comment seems to pop up in every bug bounty related thread.
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