> Apple doesn’t want the bad PR from the fact that some random enthusiast found a way to compromise both iCloud and passcode of an iPhone
It is always problematic to do free work for big corporations. Corporations have an incentive to create "competitions" and similar "challenges" were many people participate doing free work, as they find nothing, and they can still under-pay the few that find something.
Can you even imagine the cost for Apple/Amazon/Google/... if they had to find all this problems by themselves? Can you see the amount of free labor that they get?
I found this free work justified for open source, like Linux, as everybody profits from it. It is a contribution to society. To fix big corporation problems in your spare time, only causes security experts salary to go down, as you are doing the job for free.
Can you even imagine the cost to Apple/Amazon/Google if the white hat community decides these companies have no ethics or integrity, so why not just go black hat instead?
I have no idea what the dark market rate is for hacking a high profile iCloud account, but I'd be very surprised if it's less than $18k.
It is always problematic to do free work for big corporations. Corporations have an incentive to create "competitions" and similar "challenges" were many people participate doing free work, as they find nothing, and they can still under-pay the few that find something.
Can you even imagine the cost for Apple/Amazon/Google/... if they had to find all this problems by themselves? Can you see the amount of free labor that they get?
I found this free work justified for open source, like Linux, as everybody profits from it. It is a contribution to society. To fix big corporation problems in your spare time, only causes security experts salary to go down, as you are doing the job for free.