If you were a company interested in starting a bug bounty program – say, like Google did a few months ago in an effort to clean up the rather grungy Play Store – wouldn’t you like to know what type of person is eager to pull your code apart?

Wouldn’t you want to know who these hackers are? Where they come from? How old they are? If they’re teenagers using homemade tools, or professionals who work with sophisticated technologies? What soft underbellies do they target, and what are their favorite attack vectors?

Are they in it for the money, and if not, what are they in it for?

We can actually answer those questions, because the bug bounty program management website HackerOne asked.

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