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Even if the hacker was able to start an Okta competitor with their source code, how many companies would actually buy it? Who would maintain it? Or am I missing
by andyjsong 4y ago
Even if the hacker was able to start an Okta competitor with their source code, how many companies would actually buy it? Who would maintain it? Or am I missing something here, what would they use the source code for?
- random_savv 4y agoMy first thought: it's a lot easier to find vulnerabilities if you have the source code
- fakedang 4y agoExactly. Why would I start a competitor when I could easily sell zero days to dictatorial regimes and make millions or possible billions? Or utilize them myself?
- SXX 4y agoFirst of all why do you think that everything have to be done to profit off it? A lot of security research including blackhat one is done just for fun and might be it was some kind of white hat attempt gone wrong and was never reported to them as result. Also it very much possible that whoever "hacked" their GitHub account just stumbled into some important API token accidentally left in public by someone of their employees. And even if there is malicious intent there are more ways to use it. E.g Okta is public company and whoever have access to it confidencial data can manipulate their stock.