full-disclosure - Re: Serious Yahoo bug discovered. Researchers rewarded with $12.50

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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 04:13:11 -0400
From: Justin Ferguson <jf@...co.net>
To: Brandon Whaley <brandonw@...otionhosting.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Serious Yahoo bug discovered. Researchers
 rewarded with $12.50

> but that if one were to sell a useful exploit to nefarious entities, one would make significantly more.

wait.. there's nerfarious entities paying for XSS?

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Brandon Whaley
<brandonw@...otionhosting.com> wrote:
> I think the point is not so much that $12.50 is a trivial sum to receive,
> but that if one were to sell a useful exploit to nefarious entities, one
> would make significantly more.  The point of bug bounties is to reduce the
> financial disparity between responsible reporting and selling it to people
> who'd abuse it.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Justin Ferguson <jf@...co.net> wrote:
>>
>> not that its a fair payout, but for the sake of accuracy, wasnt this
>> actually $12.50 per XSS? Of those he turned in, how many were
>> legitimate threats? I haven't paid any attention to it-- bug bounties
>> are not economically viable for a person to make a living on
>> irrelevant of the payout.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Ian Hayes <cthulhucalling@...il.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Jordon Bedwell <envygeeks@...il.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Ian Hayes <cthulhucalling@...il.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Paint it for us, o wise philosopher.
>> >>
>> >> Figure it out, I'm not your mother, I'm not here to teach you how
>> >> humans
>> >> behave.
>> >
>> >
>> > Sounds like someone has an overdeveloped sense of self-entitlement.
>> >
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