When I was in high school my teacher actually proudly introduced me to the makers of the software they were using. They immediately dismissed it as known limitation not a bug. It allowed us to run arbitrary applications/code in their Kiosk application.

In university where they still had HPUX I asked the IT department if I could get printer credits in exchange for exploits I report and he immediately got angry saying I should be proud to report them.

Needless to say I ended up not reporting anything and just keeping them to myself. Thinking back I guess reporting it somewhere(maybe not in school) could have gotten me more opportunities, but who knows. I kinda wish there was some sort of mechanism to push people to make something out of their talents instead of suffocating them.