It's a little perplexing. Of course it's always a controversial topic since it's difficult to value an exploit, but whenever we read about these online, which probably goes through some survivorship bias, they seem pretty low.
On <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty it seems the top is $100,000 or $250,000 depending which program this counts under.
sdfhbdf · · focus · HN ↗
It's a little perplexing. Of course it's always a controversial topic since it's difficult to value an exploit, but whenever we read about these online, which probably goes through some survivorship bias, they seem pretty low.
On <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty it seems the top is $100,000 or $250,000 depending which program this counts under.
What does HN think? Why would it be only $5000?
bix6 · · focus · HN ↗
k2xl · · focus · HN ↗
3.85 billion is actually closer to a "penny" for Microsoft.
poly2it · · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar25/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar25/index.html