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1. You didn't have to ask them for any comment, that was a courtesy on your part.

2. A weekend is very short time to give comment. If it's on such short notice, you'd generally call them to ask your questions on the phone or swiftly set up written correspondence.

3. One or two weeks, or even more, is a common time schedule for comments from the party being investigated when it comes to investigative journalism.

4. There is probably less than 0% chance that any other investigator would have published the scoop before you.



Nitpick: How can there be less than 0% chance?


It's a lot higher than that, I scooped cybernews.com, who rushed to publish their similar piece after seeing mine, a day later: https://cybernews.com/security/rabbit-r1-hacked-using-old-vu...

(It's so similar in parts that it almost looks like a rip-off of mine, but I do believe we were just thinking in the same direction)




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