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A comment on $36k Google App Engine RCE. Parent comment

Re:$36k Google App Engine RCE by gowld on Monday May 21, 2018 @06:01PM (#17122230)
Why to vendors pay bug bounties, if not to defend against financially motivated attackers? To defend against "digital vandals" who would damage systems but not profit from them? To defend against widespread grassroots attacks if an attack is published publicly?
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Re:$36k Google App Engine RCE by pvg on Monday May 21, 2018 @06:13PM (#17122305)
To encourage people to report bugs they've found and to research bugs and then report them.
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