[fennecfoxy]

Pretty ridiculous. If I send them an email with a stupid question wasting their time on purpose just to see if they'll reply is that "human experimentation"? What a loose definition.

More to the point; are they salty because the author has possibly proved that it's most certainly possible to get critical flaws into the Linux kernel with social engineering? How else is something like that meant to be tested?

If you give them a heads-up they'll pay more attention for a short duration of time.