Everything you listed are external chilling factors.
You would blame the person neutrally shining the flashlight for the obscene response of others? Simply identifying a list of tested drives should not cause fear for someone's wellbeing. Anything otherwise is a successful stifling of knowledge.
> You would blame the person neutrally shining the flashlight for the obscene response of others?
Absolutely not, you seem to have misread me there.
I'm saying I understand the bad results not being published to avoid the potential for the obscene response from others.
Publishing the good results is enough of a public service. More than required, in fact. The test results could have been kept to themselves as nothing is owed to the rest of us.
You would blame the person neutrally shining the flashlight for the obscene response of others? Simply identifying a list of tested drives should not cause fear for someone's wellbeing. Anything otherwise is a successful stifling of knowledge.