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Yup, GP underestimates the difficulty of being a serious criminal. If you try to sell your exploit on the black market for 133k but mess up and walk into a fed
by gretch 3y ago
Yup, GP underestimates the difficulty of being a serious criminal.
If you try to sell your exploit on the black market for 133k but mess up and walk into a federal agent honey pot, now your in jail for 10 years.
Even if you did successfully do it, imagine how hard it is to explain where an extra 133k came from in your bank account.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoWhy would it be illegal to sell? Is it illegal to sell information on door locks which can be opened with a bump key?
- gretch 3y agoIf you are very confident that the buyer is legit and not evil, then you’ll be fine. Imagine though, that this information you willing sold to a shady party was used in a big hack. Say national security or an oil pipeline or something. Do you think your defense will hold up in court? How many years will you be in court? Even if you are deemed not guilty, will your life ever be the same? You’re gonna risk all of that because you thought you could squeeze a $200k out of your bug?
- p-e-w 3y agoWhy "black market"? Surely any intelligence agency worth their salt has a public, open, completely legal program where you can just contact them and offer what you have, no? They'd be stupid not to.
- sweetjuly 3y agoSelling to governments is not trivial, at all. You can't just post these things on eBay and hope for the best. Like all things, you need hard fought relationships to be able to even talk to anyone, let alone actually make a sale.
- p-e-w 3y ago> You can't just post these things on eBay and hope for the best. Of course not. You start a "security consulting company" and then apply to be a contractor. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of companies like that. And as an individual researcher, you can either join such a company, or freelance for one. It's indeed not trivial, but I imagine that anyone with enough experience in the business would know how to pull it off.