full-disclosure - Re: We're now paying up to $20, 000 for web vulns in our services

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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:13:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ramon de C Valle <rcvalle@...hat.com>
To: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>
Cc: dailydave <dailydave@...ts.immunityinc.com>,
	websecurity@...ts.webappsec.org,
	full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	bugtraq <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>, Jim Harrison <Jim@...tools.org>
Subject: Re: We're now paying up to $20,
	000 for web vulns in our services



> > IMHO, anyone who willingly, knowingly places customer data at risk
> > by inviting attacks on their production systems is playing a very
> > dangerous game. There is no guarantee that a vuln discovered by a
> > truly honest researcher couldn't become a weapon for the dishonest
> > "researcher" through secondary discovery
> 
> I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying that the dishonest researcher
> will not try to find vulnerabilities if there is no reward program
> for
> the honest ones?

He made a good example of a Slippery Slope.

-- 
Ramon de C Valle / Red Hat Product Security Team

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