[saagarjha]

That’s not what I said, I just aim to reduce harm and my culpability for it. I had assumed this was a fairly noncontroversial formulation of ethics but I guess if your goal is to explicitly bring about harm to specific people it is reasonable that we would not be able to have a discussion on this topic.

[avazhi]

What you said was a fait accompli wherein you assumed that we both share the same moral position on certain issues and you suggested that such agreement must exist for us to both be ‘ethical’.

I agree any discussion about the morality of this is unlikely to be productive, but I could have told you that at the start. Maybe don’t bring ‘ought’ statements into a discussion that’s really about the ‘how’ - how this zero-day was exploited and/or patched is, after all, the point of the submission, not some moral discussion about whether white hats ought to be doing this sort of shit in the first place.

G’day.