[bookmarkable]

I wonder why they aren’t paid in vesting stock. $50k in Tesla stock in 2017 would be a nice pay day.

It would also align hackers interest with the businesses they are helping secure.

[everfree]

I wouldn't necessarily want the stock of a company that I just found a critical vulnerability with.

[tptacek]

Then you wouldn't want the stock of any tech companies, because people find critical vulnerabilities in all of them.

[wglb]

It's not very often that serious vulnerabilities affect the stock price.

Check out the stock price of Bank of America after their servers got rooted several years back. Or that Breach that Deloitte had. How about Cloudflare?

[dheera]

You can always take the $50K and buy Tesla stock with it. How is it any different?

[rtlfe]

> I wonder why they aren’t paid in vesting stock.

Most people would far prefer cash