Acknowledgement is one thing. Disclosure is another.
If Steam had no problem acknowledging that this functionality exists, they should have had no problem with it being disclosed. There lies the problem. In the bathroom with the needle in their arm; "...there's no problem here..." but if you swing the door open they'll still try to shut it. Because they know they're wrong.
If HackerOne isn't going to help you they have no right to hinder you. If they want to strongarm everyone into effectively the same agreement as an NDA then there literally is no point in turning vulnerabilities into HackerOne.
They seem to only exist as a cow-catcher on the locomotive of software vendors too lazy to actually fix crappy code.
"Who needs to fix code and shell out bounty if you can pinpoint and silence the researcher?"
> If HackerOne isn't going to help you they have no right to hinder you. If they want to strongarm everyone into effectively the same agreement as an NDA then there literally is no point in turning vulnerabilities into HackerOne.
The article gets this part wrong: the hacker isn't banned from H1, which he says in his blog post -- "Eventually things escalated with Valve and I got banned by them on HackerOne — I can no longer participate in their vulnerability rejection program (the rest of H1 is still available though)." HackerOne is in no way punishing the hacker for his reports and/or public disclosures, for what it's worth.
(Disclosure: I am on the community team at H1, though I've had effectively zero involvement with this.)
If Steam had no problem acknowledging that this functionality exists, they should have had no problem with it being disclosed. There lies the problem. In the bathroom with the needle in their arm; "...there's no problem here..." but if you swing the door open they'll still try to shut it. Because they know they're wrong.
If HackerOne isn't going to help you they have no right to hinder you. If they want to strongarm everyone into effectively the same agreement as an NDA then there literally is no point in turning vulnerabilities into HackerOne.
They seem to only exist as a cow-catcher on the locomotive of software vendors too lazy to actually fix crappy code.
"Who needs to fix code and shell out bounty if you can pinpoint and silence the researcher?"