Comment by rdtsc
4 days ago
> Shmoocon talk accepted - Dec 9, 2024, Google re-opens issue - Dec 19, 2024
Wondering what the internal process there was at Google? Is someone's job to cruise around the various conferences and dev events to look for any Google mentions and report back. Did Google really consider it an issue or just wanted it avoid looking bad in public after the talk was accepted.
> Is someone's job to cruise around the various conferences and dev events to look for any Google mentions and report back.
Someone in Google's security team likely saw the talk, or the original blog post, and pushed internally for them to award something.
Yea. The leet amount of payout seems like this was someone saying that the classification was technically correct, but it's worth fixing either way and it'd be nice to pay an amount.
Yes, there are roles where people do nothing but search their names/products/etc specifically to see what people are saying. Hell, some people do it on themselves to the point there are phrases like "vanity search" or "egosurfing"