It's cheaper to pay kids 50k for actually finding flaws, rather than
paying hundreds of QA engineers 60-100k a pop to spend months finding
nothing. Another reason M$ sucks, exploit the exploiters.
-Cody Tubbs
Radu Oprisan wrote:
Ryan Meyer wrote:
A number of popular tech news sources are reporting Trend Micro's CTO,
Raimund Genes, publicly claiming that there are "auctions" for zero-day
Windows Vista exploits. Further, he claims these auctions are fetching
approx $50,000.
Could anyone verify Trend Micro's claim?
It seems dubious, at best, to me and possibly nothing more than pure FUD.
Sorry to get off topic.
Ryan Meyer
This could also be some covert way for microsoft to find their own
vulnerabilities. That has happened before.
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