Mr. Chairman, we need hackers!

HackerOne CEO Marten Mickos outlines the value and growth of the HackerOne platform, highlighting over $25M paid to ethical hackers (with projections toward $100M), more than 65,000 vulnerabilities found and fixed, a community of 160,000 hackers, partnerships for education (Hacker101, university and high-school initiatives), and advocacy for wider adoption of bug bounty programs by enterprises and government. The letter emphasizes the social benefits of bounties, hacker education, and the need to invest in ethical hackers to improve internet security.