The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet

Re:The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the enti... by bookmarkable on Sunday August 30, 2020 @10:48PM (#24328080)

I wonder why they aren’t paid in vesting stock. $50k in Tesla stock in 2017 would be a nice pay day.

It would also align hackers interest with the businesses they are helping secure.

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Re:The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the enti... by everfree on Sunday August 30, 2020 @11:09PM (#24328172)

I wouldn't necessarily want the stock of a company that I just found a critical vulnerability with.

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Re:The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the enti... by tptacek on Sunday August 30, 2020 @11:13PM (#24328190)

Then you wouldn't want the stock of any tech companies, because people find critical vulnerabilities in all of them.

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Re:The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the enti... by wglb on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:02PM (#24337493)

It's not very often that serious vulnerabilities affect the stock price.

Check out the stock price of Bank of America after their servers got rooted several years back. Or that Breach that Deloitte had. How about Cloudflare?

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Re:The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the enti... by dheera on Sunday August 30, 2020 @11:16PM (#24328205)

You can always take the $50K and buy Tesla stock with it. How is it any different?

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Re:The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the enti... by rtlfe on Sunday August 30, 2020 @11:02PM (#24328146)

> I wonder why they aren’t paid in vesting stock.

Most people would far prefer cash

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