No compensation for 'responsible disclosure': Microsoft

Posted by grouch on Jul 20, 2006 6:16 PM EDT
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Paying independent security researchers a bounty for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities is not the best way to protect users, according to Microsoft.
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Numerous companies offer a "bug bounty" including Firefox maker Mozilla.

[It's a matter of supply and demand. MS supplies so many vulnerabilities that no one could afford to pay more than pennies apiece to find them. -- grouch]

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