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It's risk vs reward. If he had a 50% chance of success, and spent a year on the exploits, you could equate it to 112.5k salary+benefits package (assuming it was
by birdmanjeremy 12y ago
It's risk vs reward. If he had a 50% chance of success, and spent a year on the exploits, you could equate it to 112.5k salary+benefits package (assuming it was a full time job to find the exploits). I would call 112.5 low for the tech industry, especially for someone of his caliber.
Either way, very impressive and well deserved.
- pyre 12y ago> I would call 112.5 low for the tech industry Depends on location.
- drinchev 12y agoI doubt he got one year or any deadlines in his mind. Most of the hackers do this because they know that there's an exploit somewhere. Come on, how many bugs do you produce, while writing code? Do you bet 500$ that you are bug-free? Do you bet 500$ that the libraries that you are using are bugs-free? I don't. In this sense I think guys like him are having a way of thinking more similar to a gamer : "I need to do this and I come to the next level, but the experience playing is more important than the next level!" So... I doubt he thinks there's a 50% chance. He's just too good "gamer" and he knows the games so good that he actually won the four different versions of it.