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We have several participants in our program who are making a pretty decent living, especially the ones for whom a US$5000 reward is comparable to their nation's
by secalex 12y ago
We have several participants in our program who are making a pretty decent living, especially the ones for whom a US$5000 reward is comparable to their nation's per-capita GDP. We are hoping to highlight some of these people in a future talk.
I personally think that the opening created for those without the educational or economic opportunities available to developed world researchers is the best side effects of bug bounties.
- JonathanDHall 12y agoI bypassed the bounty program because I had better things to do with my time than fill out a form to get a $25 T-shirt, regardless of that shirts worth in GDP... Yahoo! contact information is generally hard to come by, and even when it is used, it's generally ignored. Anyone on NANOG could certainly confirm this. For example, the phone number on your whois information does not even land at a voicemail, and is a business-hours only phone number.