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White hat security has got to be one of the most important but thankless fields in computer science today.

At best, there are bug bounties that may or may not be worth it depending on the severity of what you find and how many hours you poured into it.

Frequently, you get shit like this where the threat of imprisonment is very real (not that I think anything will come of this because it would be a PR nightmare, but the threat still looms).

And of course, at worst, we all can read about what happened to weev (admittedly exacerbated by him being a complete tool).