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It's not morally offensive to profit from the mistakes of a commercial entity. I'd guess that a large portions of companies are ultimately in this class. And,
by bryandollery 8y ago
It's not morally offensive to profit from the mistakes of a commercial entity. I'd guess that a large portions of companies are ultimately in this class.
And, really, dictators don't need help imprisoning dissidents -- it's sort of in the jobspec. It's not likely that a vuln would cause this to happen unless it was in systems created and secured specifically for sedition, in which case a researcher should be considerate of the potential damage.
- tptacek 8y agoI don't know what to tell you. Maybe you'd have an easier time selling vulnerabilities than I would.
- chrisbennet 8y ago"It's not morally offensive to profit from the mistakes of a commercial entity. I'd guess that a large portions of companies are ultimately in this class." I would find it morally offensive but I'm a naive country bumpkin I guess. I have pointed out something that was mispriced rather than profit from their error. It cost me something like ~$50-100 extra but I slept better.