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We're laboring a physical analogy quite hard, here.

Again, the problem isn't that he found and disclosed a bug, the problem is that he attempted to exploit that bug after the fact.

You do not have the right to do that. Pure and simple.

Finding and disclosing a bug is one thing, utilizing it is something else entirely.



He was not 'exploiting' it. He was checking if it could be exploited, just performing a gentle tug.




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