The People Companies Pay to Break Into Their Own Systems | Bug Bounty Hunters

There is a profession where the job is to break into a company's systems - and the company thanks you, pays you, and publishes the amount. It has rules, a written promise not to prosecute you, and a very sharp line you do not cross. This is how bug bounty hunting actually works: where it came from, what the money really looks like, and what separates a researcher from an intruder. In this episode: October 1995: Netscape, a support engineer named Jarrett Ridlinghafer, and the first 'Bugs Bounty' program Why the idea then sat almost untouched for seven years Scope and safe harbour - the published promise the whole arrangement rests on What the payouts genuinely look like, beyond the headline numbers The honest version of how people start, including the duplicates and rejections nobody posts about Every payout and claim in this episode is attributed to the platform or company that published it. Living people are discussed on public record only. New episode of Secret Professions every Sunday. Subscribe so you do not miss the next one. More: https://empire-ops.com/niels #BugBounty #CyberSecurity #EthicalHacking #InfoSec #HackerOne