On: We Hacked Apple for 3 Months

[michaelmcmillan]

"As of now, October 4th, we have received four payments totaling $51,500"

What a joke. That's an hourly rate of $20 (assuming 5 researchers working for 3 months). Just enough to buy a MacBook to do the research in the first place.

[xmaayyy → michaelmcmillan]

The big ones haven't been paid out yet it seems

[engineer_22 → michaelmcmillan]

In the article he says they invested "a few hundred hours"... I take that to be around 350 hours - $147/hr... still not a lot for speculative research

[Jon_Lowtek → engineer_22]

you missed a word: "we each ended up putting a few hundred hours into it."

So the 20-30$ per hour figure is closer, before taxes, with zero benefits like health, dental or pension plans.

They themselves say: bounty hunting is not a job

[engineer_22 → Jon_Lowtek]

Good catch