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“Chris Roberts of the Colorado-based One World Labs, a security intelligence firm that identifies risks before they’re exploited”

This is what the guy does for a living. It’s his job to go to the authorities 1st.

“One World Labs is a security intelligence firm that identifies risks before they’re exploited.

We offer access to the world’s largest database of dark content and provide comprehensive assessment and consulting services to protect corporations, government and non-profit organizations.”

[cripplecreek]

It’s his job to go to the authorities 1st

Well it sounds good to say but reality shows it to be utterly pointless.

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This is what the guy does for a living. It’s his job to go to the authorities 1st.

See post #11.

I have a FRiend whose cousin was a CPA, he found evidence of embezzling and went to the CEO.

Make a guess who was doing the embezzling.

They never found his body...

[PapaBear3625]

This is what the guy does for a living. It’s his job to go to the authorities 1st.

Is he a government employee? Do "the authorities" pay his salary? Does he have a contractual, paid arrangement with the authorities?

If the answers to the above are all "no", then no his job is not to "go to the authorities".

His business model seems to be to find vulnerabilities, and then offer to sell the details of the vulnerabilities to the relevant manufacturers so they can fix them. Part of that business model is to make sure that the manufacturers want to buy his data.