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Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Me... by qaq on Saturday March 17, 2018 @07:19PM (#16609587)
Well you can look at similar programs from Apple etc. and see how many takers they had. So while it's nice to imagine what "I" would do in such a situation it looks like people who actually can do this on average take the high $ payout route. It has nothing to do with black hat btw. There are gov. agencies that will pay for this stuff.
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Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Me... by Grollicus on Sunday March 18, 2018 @08:16AM (#16611591)
And the same gov. agencies will then use it against people who report on the next Snowden leaks. It has everything to do with black hat.
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Re:Microsoft Offers Bug Bounty to Prevent Another Spectre-Me... by stagbeetle on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:30AM (#16612069)
Off-topic, but Snowden is seen as controlled opposition in a good amount of infosec circles -- the one's that aren't plugged into the infosec clique machine atleast. Not to defend the government, but Snowden was hyped up when in return his leaks brought us nowhere new, but giving the laymen new words to throw around.
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