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Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Waiting until someone is harmed is tantamount to being an
> accomplice to the act.

And providing details of a currently-undefendable vulnerability
to a black hat who did not previously know about it, thereby
enabling the black hat to perpetrate harm that would otherwise
not have occurred, isn't?