> Kid should have just sold his hack to the highest bidder Really? If the thing is used for anything important, just sell the intercepted data on darknet :) An

> Kid should have just sold his hack to the highest bidder Really? If the thing is used for anything important, just sell the intercepted data on darknet :) And it seems this was passive reception of radio traffic - it'd take them a while to find him. The whole story just illustrates the danger of doing security research in the open. If he tipped them anonymously, he could simply pass the news to the media after a month and they'd have to shut up and fix their shit. I once refrained from reporting a web vuln for similar reason - I didn't trust the owner to handle this professionally and, unfortunately, I didn't use tor because I attempted the hack just for fun wanting to see how they are protected from that - turns out, they weren't at all.