I haven't enough information about the ethics of this situation so I won't comment on that. However, you exactly sound like person who "puts folks into stereoty

I haven't enough information about the ethics of this situation so I won't comment on that. However, you exactly sound like person who "puts folks into stereotypes" in your last two sentences. Come on, even Apple's servers get compromised as what all this fuss is about, are you trying to be ironic when you judge a whole industry in a country by a security breach in one of its ISPs? If he's not a security researcher but rather a "security researcher", following your steps, what kind of position does this put Apple and the American IT Industry?