Just general observations from things like the rate of pay differences between the army and blackwater.
I'm imagining that if you phoned up the CIA/NSA to sell them a vulnerability that they would not pay you and instead would send some lawyers to seize the info under a flimsy pretext.
For the most part the gov't acts like working for the gov't is some noble thing worthy of losing pay over, as if it was some special honor to die being paid $40K per year instead of $400K per year.
That said if you can contract something out to the gov't through official channels they'll pay the stupidest rates imaginable. So I guess if there was an FBO contract for vulnerabilities you'd probably do quite well.
I'm imagining that if you phoned up the CIA/NSA to sell them a vulnerability that they would not pay you and instead would send some lawyers to seize the info under a flimsy pretext.
For the most part the gov't acts like working for the gov't is some noble thing worthy of losing pay over, as if it was some special honor to die being paid $40K per year instead of $400K per year.
That said if you can contract something out to the gov't through official channels they'll pay the stupidest rates imaginable. So I guess if there was an FBO contract for vulnerabilities you'd probably do quite well.