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Re:We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? by Jolter on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:59PM (#50397564)
Charging them to detail the infection to them risks coming off as extortion to less savvy site owners. You might get a significant portion who would report you to the police rather than talk to you.

Just give them the deets.

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Re:We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? by TZubiri on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:44PM (#50428823)
>Charging them to detail the infection to them risks coming off as extortion to less savvy site owners

Certainly a touchy subject, but in the end, the security researcher is better off "risking" being seen as an extorter, than simply having no revenue mechanism.

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