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

[Jim Harrison <Jim () isatools org>]

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 () redhat com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:13 PM
To: Michal Zalewski
Cc: dailydave; websecurity () lists 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.

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Ramon de C Valle / Red Hat Product Security Team

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