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Re:Google launches new vulnerability reward platform by dylan604 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:38PM (#27978502)
>dupes - On the bounty side dupes are extremely common and buddies telling buddies about their finds is going to drive fraud up quite a bit. In my triage work I saw very clear attempts at this regularly.

wouldn't looking at the logs of when the reports were taken pretty much clearly show the first person to make the report? how is this a thing that gets confused to be an issue?

Re:Google launches new vulnerability reward platform by jcims on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @09:14AM (#27983307)
Yes. There was never a real problem figuring out who reported it first.

Duplicate reports are likely the most frustrating thing most security researchers will encounter. They put in a ton of work into finding the bug, developing a proof of concept and writing up a detailed report with the hope and expectation of being awarded for their effort. So when the triage team comes back and say it’s a duplicate and there will be no award, it's incredibly maddening. If someone needs to vent in my direction because of that, I can totally understand. The *problem* was trying to remain diplomatic with people who would sit there and repeatedly claim they were actually first, or that it wasn't a dupe, or that all of this was far too sophisticated for me to understand. Then, finding no sympathy from me, go to Twitter to wail and moan and bash the program with impunity because they know that the org won't respond in kind.

Re:Google launches new vulnerability reward platform by dylan604 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:36AM (#27984300)
>they know that the org won't respond in kind.

Maybe they should be allowed to. If it is someone that is seriously being that petulant about something, then the Org could post dates of correspondence, and even quote petulant tempertantrum once it escalates beyond civility. Once the user name gets out there, other bounty programs could just put a blanket ignor and drive the petulant person into obscurity. But of course it is the today&now, and nobody actually believes facts anymore.

Re:Google launches new vulnerability reward platform by jcims on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @12:22PM (#27985631)
I worked with some true geniuses back then, and the idea of watching them systematically dismantle idiots in a public forum would give me chills. Alas, it wasn't to be. :)
Re:Google launches new vulnerability reward platform by stolsvik on Thursday July 29, 2021 @06:36PM (#28002314)
Why can’t you share the bounty between the people that report the bug while it is valid (ie. actually a non-fixed bug)?