Reply to post: Who knew?

Bug bounty hunters score big dollars and the boom's only just begun

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Who knew?

Seems that being a low end skiddie pays well these days. Particularly the sort of petty criminal type who transitions from some noddy hacks and a bit of ticket fraud to a bit of Perl and XSS bashing.

Except it doesn't pay that well.

And the numbers don't add up between the totals being paid out by some of the biggest bounty sources and what is claimed as income, or the typical payments for individual reports. As has been said there are either very few players in the game or someone has spent 5 minutes to make up some invoices and a fake balance to show how great they are.

The whiff of bullshit is a little pungent.

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