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Stay classy!

• cupcake-unicorn 13y ago
  Indeed...This seems rather petty to me. They did offer him some money, which he's not even automatically entitled to in the first place...companies can chose whether they do bug bounties, or how much they pay.
  • ascendantlogic 13y ago
    You don't seem to understand that access to something that widely used would be worth tens of thousands of dollars on the black market for those sorts of things. For every "good" person that reports the information for free, there are people out there actively looking for this sort of thing that are not good people. If this company sets a precedent that they won't make it worth your while to "turn in the evidence", that sort of thing will just go to the highest bidder out there on the Internet and undoubtedly used for something extremely malicious. tl;dr: small payouts and jerking this guy around sets a bad precedent that will encourage future people to sell on the black market.