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Can't wait for "We pioneered InfoSec by our first-of-kind innovative bug bounty program" @ next WWDC.
Or if you prefer "thanks, after this I'm going to buy a Nexus 6p"?
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I read that as: if you find a bug and report it, you may get invited into the formal bug bounty program (but may not get a payout on the first one). No idea if that's right though.
The Reuters report has some details about why they limited it: >Apple said it decided to limit the scope of the program at the advice of other companies that have previously launched bounty programs. Those companies said that if they were to do it again, they would start by inviting a small list of researchers to join, then gradually open it up over time, according to Apple. Security analyst Rich Mogull said that lim…
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they deserve all the bashing they are getting
How is this relevant to discussion. This shit ruins the site. At least provide any content to your comment.
"Someone got offended" is the problem here. Not the alleged offender.
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How is this relevant to discussion. This shit ruins the site. At least provide any content to your comment.
No, people with no sense of humor ruins everything. It is a good joke, that's why it is top comment.
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Getting sick of the Apple-bashing. Sad to see it has reached HN, I thought it was bad enough on Reddit.
Yeah but, they do take credit like that. And I'm one of their biggest fans. Edit: oh, the downvotes, not because facts, but because dislike? "He will go through a process of looking at my ideas and say, ‘That’s no good. That’s not very good. I like that one.’ And later I will be sitting in the audience and he will be talking about it as if it was his idea. I pay maniacal attention to where an idea comes from, and I e…
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From the article: > However, Apple won’t turn away new researchers if they provide useful disclosures, and plans to slowly expand the program. I'm reading this as: if you find a serious bug and report it, you'll get the money.
I haven't read the article, but I was at the announcement and your take is exactly how it was clarified in the room. If you do good work and report it, you'll get paid accordingly.
Either its an open program or a closed program.
A closed program that allows submissions from others is an open program.
What reasons what they have to do it this way? My first guess is to tick some checkbox.
I'm a bit surprised, because you'd think that they'd have been doing this already.
Apple has slowly been opening up, they used to be such an incredibly secretive company under Jobs there's no way this would've ever happened. Whoops. I just said "Steve Jobs never would've let this happen" line. Oh well. They're letting in third-party keyboards another extensions, small additions to Siri, releasing actual software on android, it's not too surprising that they might be willing to do this now. Been ver…
Apple Software has been suffering for awhile. And where software was involved, he certainly did call teams out for failures, but we also ended up with the path iTunes is on under his watch.
That said, I don't know now, but at a time, an email to Jobs did make things happen.
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The Reuters report has some details about why they limited it: >Apple said it decided to limit the scope of the program at the advice of other companies that have previously launched bounty programs. Those companies said that if they were to do it again, they would start by inviting a small list of researchers to join, then gradually open it up over time, according to Apple. Security analyst Rich Mogull said that lim…
True, but it's not like Apple doesn't have the resources to manage an open submission program.
I'm a bit surprised, because you'd think that they'd have been doing this already.
Apple has slowly been opening up, they used to be such an incredibly secretive company under Jobs there's no way this would've ever happened. Whoops. I just said "Steve Jobs never would've let this happen" line. Oh well. They're letting in third-party keyboards another extensions, small additions to Siri, releasing actual software on android, it's not too surprising that they might be willing to do this now. Been ver…
Can't wait for "We pioneered InfoSec by our first-of-kind innovative bug bounty program" @ next WWDC.
Getting sick of the Apple-bashing. Sad to see it has reached HN, I thought it was bad enough on Reddit.
Do you think Apple gets more than Microsoft on HN? Please read any thread with Microsoft or one of their products in the title and you'll see M$ get bashed every single time. Google gets it too, from plenty of people.
Anyway, they deserve everything they get. Each one of those companies have made large crowds of enemies for various reasons.
Complaining about company bashing in general is fine by me. If you don't like it and you don't want it on HN, then I'm with you. You're just defending Apple though and that comes off as tone deaf and severely biased to me.
In any case, I don't see the mods banning people over a little poke like this. So, if people like it and upvote it then you should probably just counter with a downvote and refrain from commenting and derailing the entire thread like this.
Sorry you got offended. I thought it was funny and relevant.