The finale of HBO's Silicon Valley series pointed up a subtle parallel to the real-world challenges in vulnerability reporting—rather than risk going to jail, Pied Piper chose to burn the company to the ground. For decades, white hat and gray hat hackers had no place to report cybersecurity flaws without fear of legal hassles. Nowadays we have Bug Bounty programs, where hackers get paid to find and disclose security flaws, and even get some cash for their work.
Resources
- Internet Scanner Finds Security Holes
- CERIAS - Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security
- A history of bug bounty programs & incentivised vulnerability disclosure
- Wearing Many Hats: The Rise of the Professional Security Hacker
- Hacking the Pentagon
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