Re:Namecheap CEO offers $10k bounty for changing someone els...
by prvit on Monday August 29, 2022 @11:02AM
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Whats the point? It’s not like it makes any difference. His tweet will not protect you if you choose to make harmful changes to someone else’s stuff.
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Re:Namecheap CEO offers $10k bounty for changing someone els...
by throwthere on Monday August 29, 2022 @11:17AM
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It may or may not make a difference with what happens in the court system, but I assure you there is a set of people who think the tweet would be permission to hijack a domain. And some of that set overlaps with the group that might accept the $10k challenge. Whether they actually follow-through and are able to, hopefully not.
A bug bounty really ought to be thought out carefully.
Re:Namecheap CEO offers $10k bounty for changing someone els...
by prvit on Monday August 29, 2022 @11:52AM
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>I assure you there is a set of people who think the tweet would be permission to hijack a domain. And some of that set overlaps with the group that might accept the $10k challenge.
And then from all those people you'd still need to find someone who 1) would successfully pull it off and 2) be stupid enough to demonstrate this in a damaging manner.
It’s also worth noting that this offer was made to only one person.
Re:Namecheap CEO offers $10k bounty for changing someone els...
by throwthere on Monday August 29, 2022 @02:12PM
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Arguably the offer was made to everyone. I don't know about your other point because, like I said in my post I think those people may exist. Perhaps you don't, but, you kind of made the initial statement that it doesn't matter, right? So isn't it on you to prove it?