This seems like quite a large reputational risk for not all that much money. As far as I can tell the total demand for zero-days probably adds up to a couple billion dollars at current prices. Lowering the prices would increase demand some, but probably not enough to justify approximately any reputational risk to a company with an $800B+ valuation, especially one that’s trying to go public.
As a sanity check, the NSO group made about $250M/year selling zero-days-as-a-service, and ran into substantial legal pressure.
It was the least-stupid evil use I could think of in five minutes. Cooperating with other major tech companies almost certainly beats criminally defecting against them; that’s why the US tech economy doesn’t look much like Snow Crash.
This seems like quite a large reputational risk for not all that much money. As far as I can tell the total demand for zero-days probably adds up to a couple billion dollars at current prices. Lowering the prices would increase demand some, but probably not enough to justify approximately any reputational risk to a company with an $800B+ valuation, especially one that’s trying to go public.
As a sanity check, the NSO group made about $250M/year selling zero-days-as-a-service, and ran into substantial legal pressure.
It was the least-stupid evil use I could think of in five minutes. Cooperating with other major tech companies almost certainly beats criminally defecting against them; that’s why the US tech economy doesn’t look much like Snow Crash.