>Previously, a company called Zerodium was vocal about how much it will pay researchers, before handing them to its unknown government customers. In January, the secretive company announced it was offering $2 million for a remote hack of an iPhone.
So that's already more than what Apple offers. I tend to think they'll always be outbid.
How would that make any sense? It is ludicrous.
So $1M/exploit is priced significantly ahead of the $2M/hack.
Interesting this also means that an entire exploitable stack now becomes worth a lot more, while any given exploit is worth a lot less. And any stack of exploits becomes much more brittle, as a patch of a single one of N exploits can knock out the use of the stack.
I forget the influence until I see things like this.