Life, politics and... application development by Frank Quist.
I'm a third-year social work student in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Here I occasionally "blog" on random topics, as a means of distracting myself from the place of intense chaos that some call Hogeschool Utrecht. Also, I have to channel my nerdier tendencies somewhere... social work does not tend to work for that.
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These contests contribute to the growing culture of commercialism that surrounds the art of exploitation. In an interview with ZDNet, Miller said that the vulnerability he used in the contest was one that he had originally found while preparing for the contest last year. Instead of disclosing it at that time, he decided to save it for the contest this year, because the contest only pays for one bug per year. This is part of his new philosophy, he says, which is that bugs shouldn’t be disclosed to vendors for free. “I never give up free bugs. I have a new campaign. It’s called NO MORE FREE BUGS. Vulnerabilities have a market value so it makes no sense to work hard to find a bug, write an exploit and then give it away,” Miller told ZDNet. “Apple pays people to do the same job so we know there’s value to this work.”
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