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rakel_rakelyesterday at 8:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Spending $20000 (and whatever other resources this thing consumes) on a denial of service vulnerability in OpenBSD seems very off balance to me.

Given the tone with which the project communicates discussing other operating systems approaches to security, I understand that it can be seen as some kind of trophy for Mythos. But really, searching the number of erratas on the releases page that include "could crash the kernel" makes me think that investing in the OpenBSD project by donating to the foundation would be better than using your closed source model for peacocking around people who might think it's harder than it is to find such a bug.


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paulddraperyesterday at 9:35 PM

You don’t see the value of vulnerabilities as on the order of 20k USD?

When it’s a security researcher, HN says that’s a squalid amount. But when its a model, it’s exorbitant.

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