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No, it doesn't... but the context of this subthread was "Apple should pay a lot more for this bounty" which turned into "but if they do that then it will create a perverse incentive to do this evil thing". The people you are arguing against thereby agree with you: $50k is not enough of an incentive; but they feel that at some point as that number gets higher the incentive will make sense.



Yeah, okay, with a factor of 10 increase, that would start to make sense, and there could certainly be people willing to go for it.

Many high profile bugs seem to have plausible deniability where they can reasonably be errors but might have been deliberately inserted. Anybody can make mistakes similar to Heartbleed, especially if they want to.




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