> Of course things like pirating people's software or publicly posting an exploit is going to result in some sort of ban, if not worse! Has human nature and its long history of overreaction just escaped everyone lately?
Did you read the article? He told his boss that he thinks the security badge system had a big flaw. His boss agreed but then fired him. No software was pirated and nothing was publicly posted.
I dunno, I did interpret: "There was the 16 core workstation that he installed “borrowed” copies of several computer games on" as installing pirated games.
He definitely didn't make the security flaw public though.
Did you read the article? He told his boss that he thinks the security badge system had a big flaw. His boss agreed but then fired him. No software was pirated and nothing was publicly posted.