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> Some of them wouldn't want to work for Google and Apple in the first place, regardless of the salary. For moral reasons do you mean? I would be surprised to
by cco 3y ago
> Some of them wouldn't want to work for Google and Apple in the first place, regardless of the salary.
For moral reasons do you mean? I would be surprised to learn there are a lot of people that are open to selling 0 day exploits to "bad actors" (granted that this term is doing a lot of heavy lifting here), but wouldn't want to work for Google or Apple.
> ...it'll just be a never-ending cycle
I think the idea is you pay them so well that they can work for a handful of years and remove any cash incentive reason for them to continue selling 0 days to bad actors.
- eastbound 3y ago> “bad actors", but wouldn't want to work for Google or Apple - Everyone who doesn’t like US hegemony. Which happens about everywhere but US, in varied proportion, but even in Europe, and even worse in Middle-East, - Everyone who doesn’t like monopolies. Capitalism of competition (as opposed to state capitalism, when the state borrows a trillion per semester, ahem) requires that monopolies be broken down to avoid distortion of competition. Helping bad actors can be, under their viewpoint, less bad than the damage done to a billion consumers consumers at a time. Plus monopolies impose a monoculture of occidentalism, with certain values that a firm in Egypt might consider worse than sponsoring bad actors.
- toasterblender 3y agoIf the number of skilled 0-day hunters who will work for a paycheck is > 0, then yours is a moot point, since a poaching program would still make an impact even if there are some people who work for spyware companies who would not work for FAANG. I think you will also find that morals for many people are inversely proportional to the offered salary. An 0-day developer being compensated $130k may well abandon their particular morals if offered a $240k salary instead.