alt Hacker NewsSeems like a classification you just made up to navigate a message board debate: the category that equates commercial vulnerability research for security products and people who sell zero-day vulnerabilities to bad guys.
Seems like a classification you just made up to navigate a message board debate: the category that equates commercial vulnerability research for security products and people who sell zero-day vulnerabilities to bad guys.
People who sell zero-day vulnerabilities currently sell to both good guys and bad guys, they’re a third thing (mercenaries). However, that third thing is also bad, just a different kind of bad than what you’re calling “bad guys.”
The people selling weapons to the Taliban aren’t bad in the same way the Taliban are; one is bad for ideological reasons, the other is bad for enabling bad actors, even if they also sell to the good guys.