[LINK] The Tianfu Cup

Christian Heinrich christian.heinrich at cmlh.id.au
Wed Oct 20 08:11:45 AEDT 2021


Stephen,

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 22:50, Stephen Loosley
<StephenLoosley at outlook.com> wrote:
> The discovery came to reinforce the belief among western security experts that Beijing
> forbade Chinese security researchers from participating in hacking contests held
> abroad back in 2017 in order to better harness their exploit-creating capabilities for its
> own operations.

The above is somewhat of a manipulation, rather when viewed under an
economics lens the maximum prize at the recent Pwn2Own 2021 was
$200,000 USD which is a third less than the $300,000 USD paid at the
Tianfu Cup.


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Regards,
Christian Heinrich

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