Ah yes, another high profile bug bounty forcing non-disclosure — even for fixed bugs.
🤦🏻‍♀️
It’s the bugs they won’t fix that will put users at risk.
All orgs need a vulnerability disclosure program that doesn’t ban Disclosure.
But what do I know.
I just coauthored the standard
#GPT

“But it’s a bug bounty & they are paying so it’s fair to ask for non disclosure”
That’s fine if everything submitted is paid work, like a penetration test.
Oh, only paying selectively & only the first of any duplicates?
That’s labor abuse & the worst gig economy deal out there.

“But pen tests don’t get you all the eyeballs”

Neither do bug bounties - you get a random number of eyeballs willing to sign NDAs.

If orgs actually care about security, they cast as wide a net s as possible to get the best researchers - especially those who won’t sign NDAs.

“This is better than no bug bounty”

No, it isn’t.

It breeds a false sense of security for users & the org itself, while actively excluding the highest skilled researchers who will never sign an NDA for speculative pay or who want to see the bugs FIXED as their motivation.

Today I cried with joy & gratitude that I’m alive when I saw the Olympic mountains.

So much better than the tears I’ve been crying lately.

Find your tears of joy among all the tears of sorrow.

Cookies need both salt & sugar to come out right🍪
Pic cred:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Brothers_from_West_Seattle.jpg

Just got good news.

The kind that makes you cackle.

Such great news!!