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Why? Ethics aside, is everything money?
Ethics aside, why not? That's why we have ethics.
Professional value that doesn't translate into money, do you mean? How do you categorise that?
For me, doing the right thing is beyond all these things, and I don't care about money beyond buying the necessities I need.
Money often starts out as necessity or one of it's close cousins. If I were 1) 8k miles away from my target, 2) in a region with more internet access than employment prospects and 3) needed to eat, I can see a path to profitable disclosure.
> For me, doing the right thing is beyond all these things,
This can be a luxury. After a year or 3 of kids in and out of hunger, what's right can get reframed.
> and I don't care about money beyond buying the necessities I need.
Getting beyond that is the thing.
That...is ethics, no?
So this security researcher can keep doing his research without worrying about paying bills. The company gets cheap security audit, the researcher gets money, everybody wins
Edit: As I noted elsewhere, necessities are something else.
