Love to hear more on the motivation for agreeing to this.

e.g. The $5000? Amnesty from being sued?

menomatter 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Speaking of being sue, I once found a hole in a healthcare system. I solicited legal advice and the response was overwhelmingly against reporting. The company didn’t not have a bounty program. So I shut up knowing my info is sitting there exposed. I wonder what’s the consensus on this? Do people normally report it or not?

On some forms I was advised to report hippa complaint. I can’t remember if I did. This was 10 or more years ago.

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srdjanr 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also he's 16. I'd definitely be less willing to push back (especially on something like this) at his age

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0x1ch 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

At that age in the mid 2000s, I would be foaming at the mouth to tell a FANG company to eat dirt over something like a disclosure + unpaid bounty. But if he got the money and didn't negotiate... You live and you learn.

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p-e-w an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Of course not. You don’t push back on something like that. You hire a lawyer and let them do the pushing for you. If you contact the right NGO, they might even give you one for free.

There’s no way I’d sign any agreement with a company like Microsoft regarding an issue like that without a lawyer. I’d rather not disclose at all if those were the only options.

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saghm an hour ago | parent [-]

I don't know about you, but when I was 16, I never hired a lawyer, and none of the other 16 year olds I knew had either

	▲	snapplebobapple an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I've seen hackers. Even if you do it right you're still going to get banned from the internet till you are 18 and dating Angelina Jolie is not the draw it was 20 years ago....

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icantevenhold 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not getting your life ruined by getting sued by a trillion dollar company sounds like a pretty good motivation

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john_strinlai an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

i think the answer is simple: they're a kid, and microsoft bullied them.