EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects
This is a very strange distribution of projects. There are projects like VLC, Filezilla, and 7-zip, next to often mission-critical pieces of software, like Kafka, Tomcat, and GlibC. I wonder what went into the decision process to include each of these libraries.<p>I also dislike the 'bug bounty platforms'. Why can't I simply report it upstream, and if accepted, claim my price? Each of the projects should have CVE protocols and procedures. The idea probably is to curb the zero-day vulnerability leaks, but I assume that if you're able to find a CVE, you're capable of finding a CVE procedure.<p>Overall, though, this is great of course.