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1. Because you'll be dealing with organized criminals, which is dangerous and brings problems beyond the mere possibility of getting caught.

2. I'm assuming your basis for "no moral questions" is because you'd be hurting Google, which is a corporation, not a human, and can therefore be treated with a different set of moral values. (If this assumption is incorrect you need to clarify.) However, selling this exploit on the black market may very well be leveraged to affect a lot more people than just Google. People that will be phished, scammed and extorted. That (I hope) does pose moral questions, doesn't it?

The problem is, you can't sell an exploit on the black market on the condition that it may only be used to (say) "steal from the rich and incorporated".

3. Finally, $100k earned on the black market is not worth the same as if it was legitimate, because it is very hard to spend. I can imagine that a process of white-washing could easily knock 50% off the value, as well as taking a lot of time and effort. Then you got $50k, which is already a lot closer to $10k.




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