You are right, but that could (probably not) make them go for the bad route because they would get way more money that way. 4k for a bug that could take control of your customer account sounds disrespectful to me.

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finghin 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, my read is that the teenage hacker confronted with this ridiculous payslip sees two ways forward: accept the pay cut for the CV benefit of working with bug bounties, or get a bit better at hiding your ass and make them really pay.

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james_marks 17 hours ago | parent [-]

If I were 16, I’d be thinking I just made an obscene amount of money ($4,000!) messing with computers for fun, and got to meet people at a famous company.

That’s a free car. Free computer. Uber eats for months.

And my status with my peers as a hacker would be cemented.

I get that bounty amounts are low vs SE salary, but that’s not at all how my 16yo self would see it.

	▲	finghin 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When I was sixteen I was already familiar with the concept of leverage. I’m not sure if I’d have had the cajones to use it though.

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grenran 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Playing devils advocate but 4k is probably more money than most kids that age have seen in their life