Sometimes even the smartest and most expensive engineers fail to find things 14 year old kids in their poster-laden bedrooms seem to be able to find these days.

Sometimes even the smartest and most expensive engineers fail to find things 14 year old kids in their poster-laden bedrooms seem to be able to find these days... Google, Facebook and other tech companies seem to see the value in having a bounty program for security issues and bugs as well and by the looks of it, Dotcom is offering the same reward amounts as Google and Facebook are offering, so I guess by your logic Google and Facebook (two companies with larger amounts of money and smart engineering hires) are ripping people off as well? You are forgetting that Dotcom has to hire competent engineers to fix the reported issues, I doubt a lot of people finding the bugs and vulnerabilities are providing code samples and fixes to Dotcom. They're merely finding the holes and it's up to Mega to get their team of engineers to fix the issues.