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by omegacharlie 1354 days ago
Not telling you what to do but offering an alternate viewpoint.

If this was ten years ago myself might have agreed with others on the full-disclosure approach. However considering the irresponsibility of 'lowest common denominator' of people in modern times do you really want to enable script-kiddies to violate the privacy of many unwitting victims with a metaphorical loaded gun?

Perhaps an amicable middle-ground could be demonstrating the existence of these vulnerabilities in public (such as with a video) and withholding the exact exploit code from publication at least initially. Assuming you are at minimal risk of retaliation from the vendor and a diplomatic resolution fails to achieve results you could carefully measure the pros and cons of full publication and wash your hands of it.