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Following the advice of this post can make a 10x difference in outcome for founders. This is because they will sharpen their skill to raise this way in every round. The reduced dil…

Yahoo has fully embraced working with security researchers. For a company their size (they're no. 1 in web traffic!) with that many different services, they're doing an amazing job…

You make some very interesting observations. I'm pretty sure the folks at Twitter spend a LOT of time working on user engagement and solving the signal vs noise problem in recommen…

Well, if you have the email, just reply to it and re-open the conversation and see what happens. If you can explain it correctly, they might be able to research if the bug indeed e…

They didn't pay because he messed with other peoples' data. That's a clear no-go.

I'm surprised at how many people just assume the FB sec team doesn't want to pay and therefore tries to not pay if they can get away with it. Their history of paying out is complet…

The newspaper that published this, 'Telegraaf', is notorious for publishing bullshit. The article is very short, the journalist wouldn't be able to check if it's true, and the news…

Ah, I see you did let them know and the vulnerability was fixed before you posted. Good. I recommend saying such a thing in your post because it helps people like me understand tha…

Ryan, your post is NOT an example of responsible disclosure. You could have written your post and posted it AFTER alerting the Ice Box Pro guys and waiting until they had the main …

We're a team of five building an amazing game for this $10k challenge: compete on iOS/web with FB friends in a real time Q&A challenge based on your social graphs. Think DrawSometh…

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Next to all the talent acquisitions (Sofa etc), many a great engineer is hired away from a sometimes promising startup by Facebook (Lightbox etc). What are examples where this happ…