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by kyrra 2831 days ago
Why the downvotes? The guy is a security research, and published a bug that can crash the app or OS (reports in this thread have reported mixed results, and others are saying it may impact OSX as well). The guy goes to Twitter the announce the bug.

Most people that call themselves security researchers will notify the vendor and give them some amount of time before publishing it. He waited 1 day.

My best guess is that since it's just a OS crash, he felt he could release it. But for something that is easy for any website to do, seems like he should have given them some more time.