Bug Hunters' Perspectives on the Challenges and Benefits of the Bug Bounty Ecosystem. (arXiv:2301.04781v1 [cs.CR])

Although researchers have characterized the bug-bounty ecosystem from the
point of view of platforms and programs, minimal effort has been made to
understand the perspectives of the main workers: bug hunters. To improve bug
bounties, it is important to understand hunters' motivating factors,
challenges, and overall benefits. We address this research gap with three
studies: identifying key factors through a free listing survey (n=56), rating
each factor's importance with a larger-scale factor-rating survey (n=159), and
conducting semi-structured interviews to uncover …

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