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Doing work for somebody does not automatically grant you the right to compensation. He did this on his own accord, without petition from Google. Google has no o
by parent5446 10y ago
Doing work for somebody does not automatically grant you the right to compensation. He did this on his own accord, without petition from Google. Google has no obligation to pay him at all.
The reason bug bounties exist is to reward hackers for reporting severe and/or difficult-to-find security issues, so that they don't publish it before it's fixed and so the company gets good PR.
In this case, the bug was clearly not that severe, and thus Google presumably decided it was not worth it for them to issue a reward. There is no right to compensation here, nor should somebody think they will definitely be paid if they do a company's work for them.
- stcredzero 10y agoHe did this on his own accord, without petition from Google. Google has no obligation to pay him at all. Well of course, but my reading of it is still that it's a damn shame he's getting nothing. Just because someone has no right to something doesn't necessarily mean they shouldn't get something.
- parent5446 10y agoThat may be true, but I'd argue there's also a difference between whether somebody should get something, and whether it's a shame that they didn't. In this case, maybe he should have gotten something, but the fact that he didn't is not surprising and should be expected when doing free work.