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> In late 2016 and early 2017 I became burned-out from hunting bugs as it became a race between some very talented researchers and I. For example Derrek and I spent 2 months auditing and coding up PoCs for some bugs in a wifi driver where nearly 95% of our reports were duplicates with the Chinese teams. It was becoming hard to compete with teams who do this 40 hours a week while I do it as a hobby over coffee on Saturday mornings.

This isn't really the main focus of the article, but I find this really interesting. There are teams of full-time Chinese researchers looking for and reporting vulnerabilities in Android? Are they doing this to win the bug bounties? If so, it sounds like Google's bug bounty program is really paying off.

parent Ajedi32 9 years ago

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