Comment by 0xbadcafebee

3 hours ago

How much money is lost by consumers/businesses for every hour the vulnerability is exploited in the wild with no patch?

The value of the report is dependent on the scarcity of the knowledge. If anybody can report it, the bid goes down.

  • There is a theta decay component. The zero day is highly valuable until known; once known, its value rapidly declines to zero.

That’s not how things are valued. That’s moreso how the absence of something is valued.

  • Go without air for a few minutes and you’ll die, and yet they give the stuff away for free.