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by HenryKissinger 1790 days ago
They need to mltiply these amounts by 50x. Cybersec researchers make 6-7 figures. 20k is almost nothing.
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Not sure why you're downvoted, but the $3M/year total rewards payoff is likely smaller than the corporate administrative and developer time (for review) costs. I.e. if this was a charity it would pay out less than 50 cents on the dollar.
I downvoted because "cybersec researchers" do not in fact routinely make 7 figures. For strong pentester types reporting the typical (real) vulnerability the VRP handles, the median is probably in the low 6's.
6 figures from breaking systems and reporting them responsibly?

Sounds amazing, what's the catch?

There's no catch. You want a job as a pentester. That job is in high demand.
Frankly low 6 figures sounds low for a software job. How do you attract talent at that level?
The median bounty hunter isn't an SFBA software developer.
Not everyone can move from wherever they are to the Bay area though.