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I'm still surprised by the $10k payout given the disclosure timeline. For example they indicate that on 2022-05-04 there was a "conference call between Quarksla
by eklitzke 4y ago
I'm still surprised by the $10k payout given the disclosure timeline. For example they indicate that on 2022-05-04 there was a "conference call between Quarkslab engineers, Google Android Security Team members, and a Titan engineering team member." Since there were both Android security team members and a Titan engineer in the phone call there were clearly engineers in the loop who understood the technical details of the issue as well as the severity. The initial $10k payout was done on 2022-06-07, a month later.
One would imagine that this would have been escalated to some pretty senior security folks at Google before the payout was decided. That would mean that there would be some amount of discretion on Google's end as to the payout, since there would (presumably) be someone senior enough to look at this closely and authorize a higher amount even if there was some rubric that might seem to award a lower amount. Obviously this is ultimately what happened, as they eventually did increase the payout. It's a little strange to me though that this wasn't done sooner.
- UncleMeat 4y ago> One would imagine that this would have been escalated to some pretty senior security folks at Google before the payout was decided. Bug bounties are routine. "How much do you want to pay out" is way down the list of things that leadership is focused on for these things. "How do we mitigate this" and "how does the researcher get paid" are often questions owned by different people and teams. Directors aren't swooping in to make payout decisions.