full-disclosure - Re: OT Google raises sploit bounties

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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:37:20 +0000
From: Nick Boyce <nick.boyce@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: OT Google raises sploit bounties

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com> wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/23/mystery_chrome_0_day/
> >... but that was before Google began offering up to $60,000 in bug
> > bounties
[...]
> Did I miss a major malware related to their warez?
>
> Or are they just paranoid?

Of course they're paranoid - it's the only sensible policy.  "These
days a paranoid may be defined as someone who has some idea of what's
really going on" ~ William Burroughs.

MZ/RS:
>> As far as I know, all reward increases for Google VRPs were driven by
>> a combination of factors 1 through 3.
>
> Please stop ridiculing conspiracy theories with reasonable arguments
> :). No fun.

+1 :)

Nick
--
"When there's a shark in the water, you don't have to swim faster
than the shark ... just faster than everybody else."
 ~~ alleged Australian business maxim.

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