&gt; † (and, to be clear, a friend, though a pretty distant one; I am biased here.)<p>Alex is good friend of mine and I&#x27;ve known him since college.  He&#x27;s definitely a good guy and understands the ins and outs of security vulnerability research, having done it himself for many years.  I&#x27;m sure he didn&#x27;t take the action of calling the researcher&#x27;s employer lightly, and probably had a really good reason to do so.<p>There has to be a side of this story we aren&#x27;t hearing, and probably never will.