Michael Snoyman on Nostr: It’s common practice to either have a bug bounty program as a product, or as a ...
It’s common practice to either have a bug bounty program as a product, or as a white hat hacker ask for reasonable compensation during disclosure. Unsurprisingly there’s also a lot of scamming. I had a customer who got conned and paid 3.5 ETH for fake vulnerability disclosures.
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