I once had an interesting discussion with a tech-savvy criminal attorney about whether security researchers could trade public equities using early indicators o

I once had an interesting discussion with a tech-savvy criminal attorney about whether security researchers could trade public equities using early indicators of compromise or private knowledge of 0-day (gained from outside the company, not under NDA). She thought about it a bit and said "The insider trading laws are so broad that if the US Attorney didn't like it they would make it illegal, and if you had talked to anybody about it they would go down for conspiracy." My interactions with the criminal legal system as an expert witness since then have only reinforced my belief in Harry Silverglate's axiom that pretty much every US adult is merely an un-indicted Federal felon living their lives at the mercy of the thousands of AUSAs who could plunge them into a living hell.