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Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 222 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (27 children)

Man, Microsoft just keeps footgunning this one.

Every new exploit, they clearly have a meeting and convince themselves "that's gotta be the last of it, right?"

So the next day-after-patch-tuesday rolls around and lo and behold, this guy drops some more nukes on their reputation as far as their most important customer demographic are concerned (corporate IT)

Given this genuinely does seem to stem from Microsoft mishandling this guy, why the fuck do they keep escalating

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