[vntok]

Why would they pay anything? The researchers offered them the vuln analysis for free, unprompted.

If anything, they got paid in exposure.

[cube00]

Let's hope the grants keep coming in because those researchers will start getting offers from the darker corners of the web if bounties aren't paid.

[vntok]

It's their choice. If the researchers choose to accept and service criminal offers from darker corners of the web, they should be prosecuted as the criminals they have become.