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Re:We Hacked Apple for 3 Months by michaelmcmillan on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:04AM (#24718731)
"As of now, October 4th, we have received four payments totaling $51,500"

What a joke. That's an hourly rate of $20 (assuming 5 researchers working for 3 months). Just enough to buy a MacBook to do the research in the first place.

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Re:We Hacked Apple for 3 Months by xmaayyy on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:42AM (#24719021)
The big ones haven't been paid out yet it seems
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Re:We Hacked Apple for 3 Months by engineer_22 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:28AM (#24720024)
In the article he says they invested "a few hundred hours"... I take that to be around 350 hours - $147/hr... still not a lot for speculative research
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Re:We Hacked Apple for 3 Months by Jon_Lowtek on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:40PM (#24720855)
you missed a word: "we each ended up putting a few hundred hours into it."

So the 20-30$ per hour figure is closer, before taxes, with zero benefits like health, dental or pension plans.

They themselves say: bounty hunting is not a job

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Re:We Hacked Apple for 3 Months by engineer_22 on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:20PM (#24741586)
Good catch
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