Someone tell me how posting someones social security number online is considered whitehat? Also the manner in which he communicated was very harsh. It seemed a

Someone tell me how posting someones social security number online is considered whitehat? Also the manner in which he communicated was very harsh. It seemed as though he was taking his frustrations on his employer out on his employers client. Or perhaps all of this was his goal: hoping to get arrested, make a name for himself as a "brilliant young hacker" to build up his own security consulting firm.