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If the term is flexible, why the hard reaction to my flexing of it? I agree with the sibling commenters here. This is a bad faith, financially-motivated disclo

• dsacco 9y ago
  > If the term is flexible, why the hard reaction to my flexing of it? The terminology is not flexible, it has a well established meaning. If your bar for a black hat includes legitimate security researchers disclosing vulnerabilities in a way you don't like, you've just expanded the group of people we can call "black hats" almost arbitrarily. You're putting security researchers you have a normative disagreement with into the same group of people who commit actual fraud, steal identities and sell your credit card data.