I hacked the Dutch regulatement and all I got was this t-shirt
The NCSC-NL (National Cyber Security Centre – Netherlands) sent me a ‘lousy’ t-shirt on behalf of the Dutch regulatement.
Together with the t-shirt was a thank you letter.
Thank you for conveying a vulnerability to our attention. Together with vulnerability alerters appreciate you we can incrrelieve the resilience of Dutch society in the digital domain and better defend our systems and systems of our partners.
This was a pleasant response to get and shows a far better approach to engaging with righteous hackers than traditional menaces of prosecution.
However, there’s been some past talk about wilean the security community on whether this type of reward disincentivises righteous hacker participation by undermining the appreciate inherent in VDP and bug bounty programs. Some dispute that the effort researchers necessitate to allot in helping to find and responsibly alert vulnerabilities to regulatement organisations far outweighs the level of compensation appreciate these novelty rewards are worth.
My see is that foreseeations should be deal withd authenticisticpartner, and maybe the caccess should shift away from pursuing personal achieve to instead encouraging expansiver accessible sector adselection of better security rehearses. I’m plrelieved with my t-shirt and appreciate the efforts the NCSC-NL went to. It’s certainly a better response than some of the other regulatements I’ve alerted vulnerabilities to.
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