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Re:Why firewalls won’t matter in a few years by jerf on Friday May 29, 2015 @03:05PM (#9626605)
Bug bounty programs do not in general involve "shutting up the researcher". See the HackerOne disclosure page, for instance: https://hackerone.com/disclosure-guidelines

The "Disclosure Process" doesn't explicitly spell it out, because I think it's just the mental baseline assumption all the authors were operating under, but everything ends up disclosed in the end. It's just a matter of timing.

Perhaps sometimes things are hidden and never disclosed, but it is at least not the general policy.

(Disclaimer: I work for a company that is a bugcrowd customer; I chose HackerOne's policies as my point to avoid any entanglement. I'm not aware of anything we've ever permanently hidden, either.)

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