> we can always help them by mandating that they spend 6 figures

AWS and GCP are downstream another level. Should the reporter also have worked with them? And their customers? And the customers of their customers?

IMO this whole discussion seems like people are annoyed by the security researchers doing god’s work and wish they didn’t exist or think that they should be fully subservient to the projects and companies they are helping for free. The bugs were there before the researchers revealed them!!