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Does anyone pay bounties for this kind of vulnerability in the kernel or in widely used low-level libraries? I mean legally, not in darknet markets.



I bet there are probably a handful of government-adjacent contractors/companies that do offensive hacking on a clandestine basis that would pay a lot for them, possibly while promising legal legitimacy.

If so, they wouldn't want the public to know why they are or that they are "buying and using cyberweapons" - both to stay effective and for political/international relation reasons. So probably hard to find or contact them.

I wonder how often unsolicited emails are sent to *@cia.gov with subject: "I have RCE on ___, wanna buy it?" and how they respond.




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