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98: Zero Day Brokers

Darknet Diaries

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Microsoft Bug Bounties Are Worth More Than You Think

Microsoft was paying for bugs to get vulnerabilities fixed. But at the same time, nation states around the world were also trying to develop their own bugs in soft ware and collect intelligence from foreign adversaries. So it became a sort of arms race between governments and microsoft. No matter what microsoft offered bug bounties, the governments were willing to pay a little bit more to get access to zero day exploits within microsoft tools. This creates a problem for software companies who want to make secure software.

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