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Re:We Hacked Apple for 3 Months by saagarjha on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:36AM (#24720110)
I’m unsure what your point is? I see dozens of different issues listed in the post, on different endpoints, all of which presumably took time to find. When they said they had a team of multiple people work for months on this, I am unsure why you think they haven’t spent their time as efficiently as “a pentesting team”. Actually, I’ll be stronger: looking through the list of things they discovered, it seems like they were absolutely churning out vulnerabilities for the entire period. A real team would have certainly cost much more than what they’ve currently been paid.
Re:We Hacked Apple for 3 Months by sillysaurusx on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:56AM (#24720336)
Issue count != time spent. I found about a dozen issues in a day once. And once, it took me three days to find one.

Always found at least a medium severity issue though.

Big engagements were typically a week, max. Usually one day of kickoff / getting “in the zone” for a project, three or so days of intensive testing, then the final day is usually writing reports (ugh, reports) all day.

Re:We Hacked Apple for 3 Months by kchr on Friday October 09, 2020 @01:39AM (#24727172)
Sounds about right. :-)
Re:We Hacked Apple for 3 Months by tptacek on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:30PM (#24735449)
It's not. The median appsec engagement is ~4 person-weeks.
Re:We Hacked Apple for 3 Months by tptacek on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:54AM (#24720321)
A real team would have certainly cost much more than what they’ve currently been paid.

Yes, but that's a shared premise in this subthread already.