Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs

Re:Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs by hanniabu on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:16AM (#25559304)

> Google rewarded $3133.7 for this bug under their VRP program.

It's a pretty odd amount too. I'm curious how they arrive at that number.

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Re:Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs by esprehn on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:19AM (#25559330)

It's an old hacker reference to "eleet": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

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Re:Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs by hackerpain on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:24AM (#25559376)

Google VRP team has a tradition to reward 4 figure and 5 figure amounts to match 1337 or, L33T (Leet or, Elite).

Example bounty amounts - $1337, $3133.7, $13337 and $31337

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Re:Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs by paranorman on Monday December 28, 2020 @10:06AM (#25559705)

The 1337 could be a nod to gamer culture because it stands for “leet” and may be popular with the folks who participate in bug bounties. Pure speculation on my part here.

EDIT: yep, looks like I missed all the other comments pointing this out, mobile app didn’t load them for some reason. Leaving the comment anyway.

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Re:Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs by zackkitzmiller on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:57PM (#25562600)

Just to expand on this a bit, 31337 goes waay back. Before 'gamer culture' was a thing, and was popular enough to where it got mentions in the 1995 movie Hackers.

I vividly remember BBS and IRC handles with variations of 31337 in them in the 80s. I'm sure it goes back even farther.

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Re:Stealing private documents through a bug in Google Docs by tziki on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:17AM (#25559315)

I think someone tried to be cute by having '1337' in the sum. If the figure wasn't so insultingly low it would've been fun.

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