Jan. 8, 2022, 12:40 a.m. | /u/additionalSpice

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What stops a security researcher from selling a newly discovered exploit to a company such as Zerodium, receiving their payout, then reporting the vulnerability to the developer?

As I understand, companies such as Zerodium have high anonymity for their submissions (payouts in crypto, etc.), so I can't really see how they can deal with this by, for example, banning submissions from particular users?

In fact, what incentive is there for a security researcher not to do this? Seeing as reporting …

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