Cryptographer Matthew Green: free pentesting for a trillion-dollar company, not even a thank you
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-09-11
Cryptographer Matthew Green vents that while he researches vulnerabilities mostly for fun—and being told to back off lets him blog and lets other researchers develop proper exploits—doing free pentesting for a trillion-dollar company without even a thank-you is genuinely annoying, highlighting how big tech treats independent security researchers.
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