Anons..
The security outlook of various software and devices looks pretty bleak for the future because the tech companies are losing their best security researchers because they don’t want to pay.
How do you start a bug bounty program and accept reports, patch then not even acknowledge or pay?
In a field as in demand and competitive as cyber security is you truly do not want to lose any of the help you receive.
Very very very foolish.
Analogy: It’s like going from 10,000 people helping look for a handful of needles in a haystack to instead just a few hundred helping look.
Researchers don’t work for free and we won’t stick around and be used, exploited and unpaid.
I bet some researchers start off as white hats then go grey/black because of how jaded they become after Silicon Valley chews them up and spits them out.
Very bad (very sick) people!