"And there’s the nagging question of why the Chinese government didn’t classify this research"
Would like to hear informed thoughts on any state's pros and cons of sharing such obviously weaponizable discoveries.
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As a guess, if you're the only one who knows about this, it's one hell of a zero day. Once used though, the cat is out of the bag and industry will race to patch it. Yes, it'll take time.
If I were a country who could easily just drop bombs on people to cause destruction, then I'd rather leak something that I have no defense against in the hopes it gets patched rather than save it as a tool to use.
There is more to diplomacy and war than destruction. If you can read your adversary's private messages, you can do a lot better than blowing their shit up.