From: Cody Tubbs (tubbs@wispdirect.com)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2006 - 18:40:28 EST
It's cheaper to pay kids 50k for actually finding flaws, rather than
paying hundreds of QA engineers 60-100k a pop to spend months finding
nothing. Another reason M$ sucks, exploit the exploiters.
-Cody Tubbs
Radu Oprisan wrote:
> Ryan Meyer wrote:
>
>> A number of popular tech news sources are reporting Trend Micro's CTO,
>> Raimund Genes, publicly claiming that there are "auctions" for zero-day
>> Windows Vista exploits. Further, he claims these auctions are fetching
>> approx $50,000.
>>
>> Could anyone verify Trend Micro's claim?
>>
>
>
>> It seems dubious, at best, to me and possibly nothing more than pure FUD.
>>
>> Sorry to get off topic.
>>
>> Ryan Meyer
>>
>
> This could also be some covert way for microsoft to find their own
> vulnerabilities. That has happened before.
>
>
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