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Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by kazagistar on Thursday August 24, 2017 @02:41AM (#15088109)
What prevents the developers from building their own exploits for an easy retirement?
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Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by dogma1138 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:22AM (#15088901)
Being sued to death and possibly being hit with criminal charges as well.

If you are in a position to successfully (as in get your code reviewed, accepted, promoted and deployed) backdoor a product that is big enough to qualify for a bug bounty of even a $100,000 you are going to be paid well enough for the risk not to be worth while.

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Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by gcp on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:07AM (#15089377)
This is correct.
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