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What would work for you high standards ? If they do something it's Corporate BS. If they don't then they are same old Corp machine couldn't care less.
by mav3rick 8y ago
What would work for you high standards ? If they do something it's Corporate BS. If they don't then they are same old Corp machine couldn't care less.
- elif 8y agoa transparent bug bounty system
- mav3rick 8y agoThe end result will be the same. You will call this a PR stunt.
- davesque 8y agoPerhaps. Although couldn't that just be because we're all so used to corporations having no real accountability and only occasionally deciding to make symbolic gestures as penance for their mistakes? You're probably right that, to many of us, they can't really do anything to make up for this. But that's not our problem. It's theirs.
- sjjshvuiajhz 8y agoI figure it’s the problem of whoever is feeling bad about it.
- mav3rick 8y agoThis is a very easy problem. If you feel this strongly stop buying their products. If you don't do that clearly you don't feel strongly enough. Blaming them when they do the right thing is just going to discourage them to do so in the future
- Scarblac 8y agoI've never bought an Apple product, but I can still be bothered by the fact that such huge corporations exist and can completely change random people's lives if they choose to.
- hombre_fatal 8y agoI don't understand this thread. The article only says: "[Apple] said it would compensate the Thompson family and make an additional gift toward 14-year-old Grant’s education." For all we know, they got a check for $250. How do you reconcile your statement with the fact that you, yourself, can confer life-changing benefits to all sorts of people?
- setr 8y agoThis scenario is more of a lootbox/gambling — a chance to win a big prize, but no gaurantee. A proper bug bounty system would be a consistent outcome, and far more fair.
- bdcravens 8y agoNo, many companies have an objective bug bounty system. No one is calling those payouts PR stunts.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoMany companies have a public-facing bug bounty system. It's incredibly rare for a company to have an objective bug bounty system. I would estimate that the number of companies like this is zero. (Source: I have worked triaging reports to public bug bounty systems for large companies that you've heard of. Payouts can differ by thousands of dollars based on factors like your prior history reporting to the program, what the triager chose to put in their report (even if your two reports are identical), or the label you put on the vulnerability you're reporting.)
- Just_Smith 8y ago...Does anybody consider all the existing bug bounty programs "PR stunts"? You seem like you're fishing for a reason to continue disagreeing, and you're most certainly putting words into a stranger's mouth. A bug bounty program would demonstrate a lot more sincerity around securing their devices than a one-off reward to a kid given simply because the kid got enough attention in the media.
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- mises 8y agoThe teen and mother in question were not too technically savvy. Would they have been able to meet the usual requirements of a bug bounty filing?