If it was well known that large and highly funded subsets of foreign militaries were roaming around breaking into everyones businesses and stealing things / exploiting the lack of legal compliance then, yes, I'd be very pleased that someone took the time to both find the mistake and give me the chance to fix it / get it fixed by them before it was used against me with legitimate malicious intent.
There actually are real-life burglars. That isn't hypothetical. Would you really grant people permission to burglarize your business to demonstrate its susceptibility to burglary?