&gt; He didn&#x27;t look the guy up on LinkedIn.<p>I don&#x27;t really see how else you can interpret the defense &quot;he has written blog posts that are used by Synack for marketing purposes&quot;.<p>And it&#x27;s pointed out all over the thread, but no part of &quot;the researcher signed up for the Facebook bounty program as an employee of Synack and used his Synack email to communicate with Facebook&quot; is uncontested, nor is it supported by the text of Alex Stamos&#x27; response. You&#x27;ve just read in what you want to see.