So what you're saying is that a bug bounty would not "counter the claim “FSB messes with DB updates and automated malware submission”, because there are two other ways? 
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So what you're saying is that a bug bounty would not "counter the claim “FSB messes with DB updates and automated malware submission”, because there are two other ways? 