Researcher informs drone maker DJI about bugs, gets called a ‘hacker’ and threatened | Droolin Dog dot Net

Bug bounty programs are a great way for tech companies to crowdsource help in securing their products – and for skilled tech experts to make some money on the side. Sadly, that’s not how things went for researcher Kevin Finisterre when he pointed out issues in DJI’s publicly shared code. Instead of awarding him the $30,000 bounty that he had qualified for with his discovery, the Chinese drone maker dubbed him a ‘hacker’ who broke into its servers, and threatened to charge him with Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). In a scathing post (PDF), Finisterre explained that DJI had… This story continues at The Next Web Source: https://thenextweb.com/security/2017/11/21/researcher-informs-drone-maker-dji-about-bugs-gets-called-a-hacker-and-threatened/ Tags: > Tech and Science | #ScienceTech, #pch3lp, #TechNews, pch3lp, PCH3lp, TechNews

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