HackerOne decides bugs are 75% cheaper

HackerOne has slashed payouts for critical security flaws by more than seventy-five percent. That will certainly encourage people to tell us about them.

Source: The Register

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Because nothing motivates researchers like a massive pay cut, HackerOne has kindly slashed its critical vulnerability rewards by over seventy-five percent. This brilliant strategic move affects anyone relying on the platform to find critical holes, as talented researchers will surely continue working for pocket change out of pure love for us. To protect our infrastructure when these security finders inevitably walk away, we should probably stop relying on underpaid strangers to spot our glaring mistakes before the actual criminals do.

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