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Re: OT Google raises sploit bounties


From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor () hammerofgod com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:58:55 -0800

In fact, Yahoo!'s InfoSec team is called The Paranoids even outside Y! .  
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Sent from whatever device will keep us from debating which one is better.

On Nov 26, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Nick Boyce <nick.boyce () gmail com> wrote:

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski 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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