Re:Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps
by jcims on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:37PM
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> The bug value also shows how much Slack here values their security, and makes me wary of them if I was in the place to be a customer of theirs.
Most directly it shows how they value a bug bounty program. There are companies that spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year and have thousands of people in their infosec program that don’t have bug bounty programs.
You can extrapolate that to how they value security but that’s not necessarily directly correlated.
Re:Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps
by albntomat0 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @01:07PM
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>There are companies that spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year and have thousands of people in their infosec program that don’t have bug bounty programs.
Such as?
That's missing a key point of the bounty system. Slack and its users are better off that this bug was 1: discovered and 2: responsibly reported. The bounty increases the number of eyes looking, but also incentivizes folks to look into weird crashes or fight through the drudgery of triaging odd behavior.
The bug value also shows how much Slack here values their security, and makes me wary of them if I was in the place to be a customer of theirs.