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Re:The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the enti... by filleduchaos on Sunday August 30, 2020 @10:34PM (#24328016)
The bounty was $5,000 not fifty thousand. And frankly that would be chump change anywhere for the opportunity cost.
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Re:The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the enti... by sellyme on Sunday August 30, 2020 @10:40PM (#24328039)
It was $50,000:

> He didn’t end up getting a new Tesla, but the automaker awarded him a special $50,000 bug report reward — several times higher than the max official bug reward limit:

You're looking at the $5,000 bounty awarded for exposing Supercharger-related data that Tesla "didn't want [...] out there", which is obviously a much less severe issue than remote control of the entire fleet.

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Re:The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the enti... by filleduchaos on Sunday August 30, 2020 @11:24PM (#24328255)
Ah okay, thank you. Not sure why the $5000 figure stuck with me
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Re:The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the enti... by jefftk on Sunday August 30, 2020 @10:42PM (#24328050)
No, $5k was for an earlier bug. "the automaker awarded him a special $50,000 bug report reward — several times higher than the max official bug reward limit"
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