Apple promotes its Security Bounty program as one of the most generous in the tech world, offering up to $2 million for high-risk vulnerabilities. But recent events raise questions about how the company determines payouts. A researcher who reported a serious flaw in Safari received only $1,000, even though Apple labeled the bug as “Critical” […]
Does one have to join some apple developers system and pay some annual developer’s fee in order to get the 1000 bounty ?
Generally no, but submitting a bug bounty is very much a nontrivial amount of work in documentation alone.