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 21:02:05 +0000
From: Jim Harrison <Jim@...tools.org>
To: Ramon de C Valle <rcvalle@...hat.com>, Michal Zalewski
	<lcamtuf@...edump.cx>
Cc: dailydave <dailydave@...ts.immunityinc.com>,
	"websecurity@...ts.webappsec.org" <websecurity@...ts.webappsec.org>,
	full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	bugtraq <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: We're now paying up to $20,
 000 for web vulns in our services

Exactly so.
I'm not so naive as to believe that monetary motivation turns EvilBob into GoodBob, but neither do I want to make EvilBob's job that much easier by increasing the number of concurrent attackers (good or bad) through rewards.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ramon de C Valle [mailto:rcvalle@...hat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:13 PM
To: Michal Zalewski
Cc: dailydave; websecurity@...ts.webappsec.org; full-disclosure; bugtraq; Jim Harrison
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] 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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