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The Bounty For An Apple Bug

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Re: The Bounty For An Apple Bug

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Why don't the vendors (Apple and Microsoft) respond by offering their own bounties and fixing the problem?

Good question.

We don't know why, all we know it that is takes public naming and shaming to get them to do anything about serious security related bugs (and this is no just for Apple but for most companies).