Re: If I were the Pauper who found a security hole that allows privilege escalation, I'd …

[Illuminatus]

1. Take the Throne
2. Use my access to grab all the info I could about the Prince's surveillance excesses
3. Leave the Kingdom and travel to another that I believe is 'far more open' than the original, but has a very strong extradition treaty with my homeland
4. Leave *that* Kingdom for yet another that also claims to be 'far more open', but has an unparalleled legacy of spying on its own people
5. Live like Tom Hanks in The Terminal in that Kingdom while their King keeps changing his story about what my options are
6. Keep wondering what the weather is like in Honolulu right now, since this Kingdom's airport doesn't have wifi

Any similarities to any person, living or dead, are purely coincidental

fnord