cURL stopped HackerOne bug bounty program due to excessive slop reports(github.com)
8 pointsby latexr5 hours ago3 comments
  • latexr5 hours ago
    Exact messaging is:

    > We have concluded the hard way that a bug bounty gives people too strong incentives to find and make up "problems" in bad faith that cause overload and abuse.

    Anyone who follows Daniel Stenberg on social media, or his talks, or his blog, or cURL’s HackerOne, know the struggle AI slop reports have been on the cURL project, and how they’ve tried to work with HackerOne to reduce those and have been talking for months about terminating it for that very reason.

  • jruohonen5 hours ago
    As could be expected, curl was the first one, but now the prediction is in the air about whether slop will kill also bug bounties themselves, and maybe even GitHub; cf.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666777

  • billy99k4 hours ago
    Slop bug bounty reports have always been an issue. Sites like HackerOne have a triage team that's supposed to filter through the garbage, before it gets to program management.

    On the other side of it, I've submitted reports that are valid, have the steps, and show impact. Companies will do everything in their power to not pay you, including changing the back-end code or just stating it doesn't have any impact on business.

    • latexr3 hours ago
      > Sites like HackerOne have a triage team that's supposed to filter through the garbage, before it gets to program management.

      Daniel Stenberg, leader and BDFL of the cURL project, has been in contact with HackerOne for at least several months to resolve the situation. It was fruitless. Daniel’s social media posts and blog make that clear.

      > Companies will do everything in their power to not pay you, including changing the back-end code or just stating it doesn't have any impact on business.

      That doesn’t apply to cURL at all.

      • billy99k3 hours ago
        That's why I said 'supposed to'. It's obviously not working.

        "That doesn’t apply to cURL at all"

        I never said it did. My point is that companies are struggling with slop reports as much as researchers not getting paid.