[PLUG-TALK] Exploitable Bug in a Programming Language?

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:49:46PM -0700, wes wrote:
> Does this seem way too specific to ever be a real thing? Just look at that
> price tag - $90,000. That's more than I make in a year, so it would make
> sense to hunt for these vulnerabilities as a full time job. Who out there
> gets paid this much by software vendors to find these? Nobody, that's who.
> There are some who do it part time, maybe the coders themselves are
> expected to spend some percentage of their time on it, but the _only_ one
> for whom this is full-time work is a black hat hacker.
 
And you work in the nation with the fourth highest average disposable income in the world. 
If you lived in Russia - where the annual average income is around $22,000 or, well, pick
any place really that $90,000 is goes a long way.



-- 
      Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon  
    Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity
Eat only foods that will eventually rot.
    ~ Michael Pollan