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laffer1 t1_j26lhp6 wrote

Reply to comment by Autski in Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations by chrisdh79

The downside is that people expect it now from everyone. When you run a small open source project and folks try to hold you hostage to pay, it sucks. Plus a lot of folks do scans all the time hoping to find a vulnerability against your servers

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ImN0tAsian t1_j279uw3 wrote

Well, the bug-rewarding is in response to extortion via ransomware, so it goes both ways, sadly. I'd rather pay a smaller sum to reward white hats than risk losing an operation.

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