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No, his point remains: companies may act in bad faith, and publicly committing to act in good faith is absolutely no evidence they will not.

I don’t mean to be trite, but publishing a bug bounty program doesn’t mean you’re the good guys.

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> publishing a bug bounty program doesn’t mean you’re the good guys

this is meaningless rabble. Yes you can get burned in all kinds of legitimate situations [1], but 99.xx% of bug bounty interactions do not result in any kind of legal action even if you wander a bit out of scope

[1]: https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts...

> this is meaningless rabble

That is rich coming from yourself. Are you at all familiar with German law?

It’s less than a 1% chance of financial ruin!m? Sign me up!

I hope you also avoid using any kind of modern transportation, like cars, since there's a non-zero chance of dying in a crash

I would probably avoid transportation that kills 1% of its users each trip.

Username checks out. Guess you're going for 100%?

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