With regard to to your final sentence: &quot;Condoning researchers going well above and beyond what is necessary to find and fix critical issues would create a precedent that could be used by those aiming to violate the privacy of our users, and such behavior by legitimate security researchers puts the future of paid bug bounties at risk.&quot; Regardless of whether one thinks Weinberg&#x27;s actions were ill-advised, there seems to be a general consensus that they were instrumental in the discovery of some very critical issues, and that you are lucky it was he who found them.