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It's only blackmail if the threat is to do something you are not otherwise legally allowed to do. It is legal to, say, announce a zero-day on Twitter. Or to sel
by asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
It's only blackmail if the threat is to do something you are not otherwise legally allowed to do. It is legal to, say, announce a zero-day on Twitter. Or to sell the zero-day to the NSA, or some grey hat broker like Zerodium.
- j4yav 6y agoIn the US at least I don’t believe the act has to be illegal.
- treis 6y agoNo it's not. Pay me $10,000 or I tell everyone you slept with your secretary is blackmail.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoOk, you got me. But there must be more to the definition of blackmail than simply, pay me or else. If that were the definition, then everyone would be a blackmailer by virtue of "pay me for this or else I'll sell it to someone else," which is a "threat" we all implicitly make every day.