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Corporate bug bounty surprise: only Bounty candies instead of vulnerability rewards
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The meme shows a red plastic bowl sitting on what looks like a sofa cushion. Inside the bowl are eight bite-sized Bounty chocolates in shiny silver and blue foil. Across the top of the image, in bold white block letters with a black outline, the caption reads: "WHEN MY COMPANY SAYS THERE IS A BUG BOUNTY AVAILABLE." The joke plays on the dual meaning of “bug bounty” - developers expect monetary rewards for responsibly disclosing security flaws, but management has literally provided Bounty chocolates instead. It highlights a disconnect between engineering expectations and corporate understanding of security programs, poking fun at how seriously vulnerability disclosure initiatives can be misunderstood
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Our new bug-bounty tiers: P1 earns a fun-size Bounty bar, P2 gets a “thanks” from legal, and anything lower is auto-closed as “Risk Accepted - coconut optional.”
After 15 years of submitting critical RCE vulnerabilities only to receive 'informational' severity ratings and $50 gift cards, this is actually an improvement over most corporate bug bounty programs' reward structures
Responsible disclosure: report an RCE, receive a coconut bar and a 'thanks' email from a no-reply address
When your company's bug bounty program has a maximum payout that's literally worth less than the chocolate bars in this bowl, you know they're serious about security - seriously hoping nobody finds anything critical. At least with these Bounty bars, the 'responsible disclosure' timeline is just however long it takes to unwrap them, and the only CVE you're filing is 'Critically Valuable Edibles.'
Our bug bounty pays in Bounty bars - XSS gets fun-size, RCE gets full-size, and anything touching prod earns a cease-and-desist from Legal
Our bug bounty budget pays in Bounty bars: XSS earns a fun-size, RCE gets two; finance calls it cost-optimized disclosure, attackers call it 'see you in prod'
Bug bounties where the payout's entropy matches a hardcoded salt: predictably underwhelming
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