Stephen Dubner is a co-author of the ridiculously popular Freakonomics books. Dubner said that he had great respect for the job that security professionals do, fighting the good fight against attackers and the occasional nation-state attackers. But his most insightful comments had to do with rat farming: It turns out it s essentially a slightly more disgusting version of bug hunting, Dubner says. The idea actually created an entirely new industry: rat farming. The idea of people raising rats for the express purpose of killing them likely isn t what the officials had in mind.
Source: https://threatpost.com/how-bug-bounties-are-rat-farming-092011/75671/