Research Or Over Reaching?
Study, analyze, report back to the community?Yep.
Exploit in secret for government agencies? Nope, you have waltzed over a line. Did the researches waltz over?

Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI? There’s pretty strong evidence that the team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who canceled their scheduled 2015 Black Hat talk deanonymized Tor users for the FBI. Details are in this Vice story and this Wired story (and these two …