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I got my first bug bounty at 16. Not having access to compute would've drastically changed the direction of my life. I wouldn't have been able to afford university & would likely be working on a farm right now like my cousins

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Access to a desktop computer vs a smartphone that they bring to bed with TikTok on it are different though. What was your bug bounty for?

As a kid I was using my PSP to browse the web at night. Will you also restrict a Nintendo DS, a Switch, and any other device that comes with a web briwser?

IOS and MacOS priv esc.

Yes I needed a smartphone to test on

That's awesome! Testing on, with a non-zero amount of adult supervision isn't the same thing as being given a phone with Snapchat and TikTok to take to bed at night though. I'm open to setting it to a different age. I didn't do a ton of research before picking 16. But also it's not like I'm actually in charge of anything either.

AFAIK a nontrivial (5-10%?) fraction of population own a smartphone without any bigger computing device.

I would doubt many of them are using those smartphones to collect bug bounties.

Well they didn’t say 16 years olds should not having access to compute so your point is irrelevant.

Pretty sure that to get a bug bounty one needs to study things first, and this takes quite a bit of time.

Yup. I started learning at 10 mostly messing about with modding and dumb script kiddie stuff. You don't just get a computer one day and get an exploit out the next

This is what aannoys me about all the discussions on these issues.

People come up with all sorts of random scenarios, that aren't even related to "prove" something...

I got my first legal threat for reporting a vulnerability at 14 :(

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