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why? Why would you want to punish the capitalist levers to ensure these products stay on their toes?!



What prevents the developers from building their own exploits for an easy retirement?


Being sued to death and possibly being hit with criminal charges as well.

If you are in a position to successfully (as in get your code reviewed, accepted, promoted and deployed) backdoor a product that is big enough to qualify for a bug bounty of even a $100,000 you are going to be paid well enough for the risk not to be worth while.


This is correct.




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