[yogorenapan]

I got my first bug bounty at 16. Not having access to compute would've drastically changed the direction of my life. I wouldn't have been able to afford university & would likely be working on a farm right now like my cousins

[fragmede]

Access to a desktop computer vs a smartphone that they bring to bed with TikTok on it are different though. What was your bug bounty for?

[dgellow]

As a kid I was using my PSP to browse the web at night. Will you also restrict a Nintendo DS, a Switch, and any other device that comes with a web briwser?

[yogorenapan]

IOS and MacOS priv esc.

Yes I needed a smartphone to test on

[fragmede]

That's awesome! Testing on, with a non-zero amount of adult supervision isn't the same thing as being given a phone with Snapchat and TikTok to take to bed at night though. I'm open to setting it to a different age. I didn't do a ton of research before picking 16. But also it's not like I'm actually in charge of anything either.

[adrian17]

AFAIK a nontrivial (5-10%?) fraction of population own a smartphone without any bigger computing device.

[bigfishrunning]

I would doubt many of them are using those smartphones to collect bug bounties.

[NeutralCrane]

Well they didn’t say 16 years olds should not having access to compute so your point is irrelevant.

[theamk]

Pretty sure that to get a bug bounty one needs to study things first, and this takes quite a bit of time.

[yogorenapan]

Yup. I started learning at 10 mostly messing about with modding and dumb script kiddie stuff. You don't just get a computer one day and get an exploit out the next

[marysol5]

This is what aannoys me about all the discussions on these issues.

People come up with all sorts of random scenarios, that aren't even related to "prove" something...

[marysol5]

I got my first legal threat for reporting a vulnerability at 14 :(