Citation please?

Of course he hasn't. In Russia, it's a Ve4

From Woody Allen's Sleepers:The Charmed Substances

Well, that was about thirty seconds longer than my wedding night...

No. We're an narco-syndicous commune. We take it in turn, to act as sort of an officer for the week-- but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs or by a two-thirds majority, in the case of--

How predictable of you...

The Department of Redundancy Department has been made redundant. If you have any questions please consult the Office of Superfluous Offices.

According to the CIA's World Fact Book, the United States Life Expectancy at birth is number 43 in the world. Above the United States in that list are Bermuda, Anguilla, Turks And Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands, all of which have a larger proportion of their population listed as Black than the United States. Maybe you need to find another excuse for the "superior health care in the USA" failing so many of its people...

What an appropriate user name, although I'm sure there's a double-digit user named Methuselah around here somewhere.

:%s/google/$manufacturer/

Well that would be entertaining...

I don't kno..ARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

The world may never know...

No, no, no, Mal DOES come over and sit in your garage (well, technically a hangar) and drink your beer. You see, they actually, they got the name of THIS code wrong. This is not Fruitfly, it's actually Firefly and that's why it's Malware...

Absolutely. And in this case specifically I would think that a security researcher is the equivalent of a journalist - as long as he himself did not break the law he is free to publish whatever has been freely given to him. For example, see the Pentagon Papers. If someone gave this info to Chris Vickery and all he did was confirm the authenticity of it then he was merely performing due diligence.

But think about bricking a device. If someone's IP phone accesses the internet via some cheap crappy router and they need to call 911, do we blame the person that bricked the device for the failed call? The main problem I have with vigilante security fixes is the cascade of consequences that follow from the good intentions. Most of those consequences won't affect the vendors that sold the crappy router in the first place, just the poor slobs that tried to save a few bucks on a router. In theory vigilante bricking sounds great but in reality it can be a much different story.