>An obligation to announce findings would create a moral hazard as well, since the incentives would suddenly tilt sharply towards not looking for security vulne

>An obligation to announce findings would create a moral hazard as well, since the incentives would suddenly tilt sharply towards not looking for security vulnerabilities. A good point. There is also the fact that the average Internet user has no clue what things like a vulnerability, or a bug, or even a log is or what it means. Data mining, web scraping or data harvesting--no clue. I just saw a TV report this weekend that stated CA hacked FB. Well on second thought, maybe that's better than trying to explain that even though "thisisyourdigitallife" you really need to spend some time and effort to understand what it all actually means.