my guess is the companies involved likely threatened to sue / wouldn’t give consent unless they (the companies) chose the parameters. from my perspective it lo

my guess is the companies involved likely threatened to sue / wouldn’t give consent unless they (the companies) chose the parameters. from my perspective it looks like the companies wanted to stress test the areas they were going to market the heaviest. they wanted to use the power of hackers in one place for nothing more than free due diligence for them to shore up their marketing. and it looks like it backfired. if the people i’ve spoken to are any indication, they didn’t get truly stress tested at all—those most equipped to do actually meaningfully engage thought it was kind of ridiculous. this deserved a (at least) conlength timeframe with no guardrails. ideally teams could have had months to prep and conlength to activate. again, no guardrails.