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Bug bounties: the good and the bad of computer security

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Is It Sible to Corner the Market on Bugs by Outbidding It?

'The offence market was already inflating the prices straight they were all ready basically, you know, making it perfect for defense contractors like rathion and what not to bid on,' he says. 'They don't need to constrain itself to who it could hire in the future, an house, right? They only have that mission of doing their offence work so they can just jack up the price as much as they want.' He adds: 'That is why, you know, raising prices past the point where you could reasonably pay developers and testers to come into your organization are a losing game'...

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