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If I understand you correctly, you're asking me if I would class this as a 20k USD (plus environmental and societal impact) bug? nope, I don't.

I've not said anything else than that I think this specific bug isn't worth the attention it's getting, and that 20k USD would benefit the OpenBSD project (much) more through the foundation.

> When it’s a security researcher, HN says that’s a squalid amount. But when its a model, it’s exorbitant.

Not sure why you're projecting this onto me, for the project in question $20k is _a_lot_. The target fundraising goal for 2025 was $400k, 5% of that goes a very long way (and yes, this includes OpenSSH).



> you're asking me if I would class this as a 20k USD (plus environmental and societal impact) bug?

Not this bug in particular as a single bug bounty, but as an entire codebase audit that exposed multiple bugs? Sure.




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