[Fuxy]

I agree with you however companies are completely the void of morality their only purpose is profit and they will hire shady lawyers to interpret the law in their favor fire people without giving it a second thought or collude with other big companies to keep their employees wages low so why would i treat them differently.

In business morality is a luxury that some companies can't afford and most choose not to have so it shouldn't be expected.

The only thing preventing you from selling it on the black market is the potential fame and business you may get by being able to reveal your find which may or may not be worth it.

That 10k is not really much of an incentive from a business perspective.

[lotsofmangos]

companies are completely the void of morality their only purpose is profit

Companies are groups of people and have many different purposes. I understand being worried about the rise in corporate oligarchy, but your argument is itself the attitude you are accusing companies of. The problem isn't companies being immoral, but people rationalising behaviour that they know to be immoral.

[Fuxy]

That's probably because i treat them the same way they treat me.

Their attitude makes sense and sometimes it's actually necessary for a companies/entities survival.

We all face hard choices between what's moral and what's best for our own survival the only difference is companies put any amount of small profit over morality not just survival.

I don't make the rules i just play the game.

[lotsofmangos]

Are you a bot with a database of platitudes?

[coldtea]

>I agree with you however companies are completely the void of morality their only purpose is profit and they will hire shady lawyers to interpret the law in their favor fire people without giving it a second thought or collude with other big companies to keep their employees wages low so why would i treat them differently.

Perhaps, but even so, when you sell a vulnerability to the "black market" you don't just harm Google. You also harm people the vulnerability will be used against (to fish their credit card details, compromise their servers, etc).

(Perhaps in this case, for technical reasons you can only harm Google with this thing, not sure. But still, talking in general).

[danbruc]

I would never consider selling it on the black market. That others are lacking moral principles is not a justification to go the same route.