I don't think these guys should go to prison. If this becomes a trend, then I'm predicting that there will be researchers who run afoul of exceedingly broad securities laws. https://twitter.com/chronic/status/973718151442690053 …
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I also worry if this might lead to perverse incentives for responsible disclosure if dropping public vulns without working with the vendor to address and patch first proves to be consistently profitable.
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The only saving grace is that it looks like nobody has ever made money short-selling on vuln research.
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I think you are probably fine as long as your work is completely objective. But...
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...let’s say a researcher is hired by a short seller, and they draft the pre-disclosure announcement together. The short seller asks the researchers to really pump up the announcement, perhaps to support the assertion that the target stock should go to zero.
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