All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two

Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by rudolf0 on Friday March 20, 2015 @02:45PM (#9239792)

My understanding is that would violate the rules of the competition. Though of course if a competitor were to do that, odds are no one would find out.

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Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by djrogers on Friday March 20, 2015 @05:33PM (#9240809)

Would someone willing to sell exploits on the black market really be concerned with "violating the rules of the competition"?

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Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by rudolf0 on Friday March 20, 2015 @05:51PM (#9240889)

Well, presumably they'd want to keep the money from the competition. That's definitely an incentive.

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Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by MichaelGG on Friday March 20, 2015 @06:45PM (#9241108)

I would imagine it'd be fairly hard to the competition to know and revoke the money. Bad guys are almost certainly exploiting various undisclosed vulnerabilities. The bigger issue, I'd assume, is that by doing this competition, you've now killed that bug you previously sold. So long that was disclosed to the buyer though, I imagine you're all set.

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Re:All Major Browsers Fall at Pwn2Own Day Two by im2w1l on Saturday March 21, 2015 @06:02AM (#9242297)

Odds are the black market guys find out. I don't know how the market works, but I'd be pretty pissed if I had bought a hole just for it to be patched soon after.

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