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by omoikane 701 days ago
Maybe these bounties are intentionally set to be roughly comparable to annual salaries. A very high bounty might encourage developers to plant backdoors instead, a la cobra effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

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Current or former employment is almost always a disqualifier for a bounty payout.
Yea but I didn’t find the bug. My buddy Jim did.