Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to get paid for discovering ...
by lawnchair_larry on Thursday July 23, 2015 @09:59AM
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Yeah, all of those numbers are out to lunch, and the "good vs evil" is completely made up.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to get paid for discovering ...
by dsacco on Friday July 24, 2015 @12:54AM
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The numbers are accurate. Browse through past payments to researchers participating in the Internet Bug Bounty, Pwn2Own or Microsoft's mitigation bypass bounty.
I don't have any good citation for the going rate for a high value vulnerability on the black market, but if you look I'm sure you'll see it can easily enter the mid six figure range.
As for "good vs evil" - I never used those words. Morality is a word I used because it provides a useful context against which to judge legitimacy. You can fairly say it is unethical to sell vulnerabilities for the explicit purpose of exploitation. I don't particularly care to color it this way; I disagree with such actions but I still respect my fellow colleagues who do it.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to get paid for discovering ...
by lawnchair_larry on Sunday July 26, 2015 @02:48AM
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I'm familiar with those bounties, and they're galaxies out of the ranges you're quoting.