Say you find an exploit... What do you do?

You find an exploit. What would you do? And you can get away with it


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Say you find an exploit and can exploit it for profit. and you know you can get away with it.

Would you exploit it for max profit? or would you report it to the company and hopefully have a nice reward?

:o
 
Depends on the context of the exploit and what it actually is.
 
Avoid using the exploit for personal gain, causing harm, or accessing systems or data you don’t have permission to. Even if you're just "testing," unauthorized use could be illegal.
 
I would exploit the company and exploit whoever try to report and help those surveillance big techs
 
1)Avoid using the exploit for personal gain

2) causing harm

3) or accessing systems or data you don’t have permission to. Even if you're just "testing," unauthorized use could be illegal.

I'm all for 2 and 3 as to your points, but #1 is not how most of us operate.

Grocery bills are not paid with cat videos and Unicorn stories.
 
If you can exploit a system. You can probably build a better one. If they dont listen. Just build competition to them. I ll bet you they will listen then. Solutions usually lead to better business ideas.
 
I'm all for 2 and 3 as to your points, but #1 is not how most of us operate.

Grocery bills are not paid with cat videos and Unicorn stories.
Words. I'm dead sure if we could have at least free food and free shelter, we wouldn't be here tbh
The world would grow so fast.
But we can only hope
 
Words. I'm dead sure if we could have at least free food and free shelter, we wouldn't be here tbh
The world would grow so fast.
But we can only hope
If we had free food and free shelter we would not value it.

My username is from a company that I exploited... Amazon, UPS, Lands End, Google, Uber, Lyft and a handful of others left things open so I slipped in the side door, and played.

I have received so many C&Ds over the years from those big boys, I could wallpaper my living room.
 
Words. I'm dead sure if we could have at least free food and free shelter, we wouldn't be here tbh
The world would grow so fast.
But we can only hope
I'm all for 2 and 3 as to your points, but #1 is not how most of us operate.

Grocery bills are not paid with cat videos and Unicorn stories.

Well its all up to the eye of the beholder as to what works? One thing may work in Africa. May not work in South America. And one thing that works in two continents may work in Europe or not in Asia or the middle east. It really is us deciding destiny I think personally. Look at how far humans have come WITHOUT war. With war both? Anyway, don't want to get too philosophical about it. But, to some extent you only see what you want to. You'll only pursue what you think makes sense?
 
This depends on the platform I found, and especially whether they cared about the support tickets I sent at the time or just ignored them
 
Say you find an exploit and can exploit it for profit. and you know you can get away with it.

Would you exploit it for max profit? or would you report it to the company and hopefully have a nice reward?

:o
It really depends what that exploit is, how much legal trouble I am get into
If i am guaranteed to get away
exploit early
exploit fast
then disappear :)
 
It really depends what that exploit is, how much legal trouble I am get into
If i am guaranteed to get away
exploit early
exploit fast
then disappear :)
getting in and out is the way to go, but I believe that the exploit I found I can make a lot more if I keep under the radar for long term.
I think that I can really milk it and make a substantial profit, but I think I can get max profit with it only if I stay under the radar and stick to it long term.

I think I can easily push it and take a bug chunk in one day, but that would raise all kind of alarms and red flags and it would probably get patched very fast

But if I stay under the radar, I think I can milk it and make quite a bit of $$$ ;)
 
Say you find an exploit and can exploit it for profit. and you know you can get away with it.

Would you exploit it for max profit? or would you report it to the company and hopefully have a nice reward?

:o
The company will never reward you as much as if you were exploiting it to the fullest. If you can get the maximum profit out of it, go for it.
 
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