• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    Who would have expected that to happen? Multi billion dollar company fucks over yet another person and person keeps coming back with bee stings, over and over and over…

    Security researcher, whoever you are, wherever you are, I get you, you go girl! Or guy, I don’t care. I am not one for Vendettas, but David stinging Goliath non stop? Go go go!

    And to affected Windows users: I don’t care. You chose to use windows, you get what you deserve

    • Yeah, extremely poor framing cybernews. if Microsoft fail to adequately respond to bug bounty, it’s within the best interests of everyone to have this published publicly. (otherwise it’ll just get sold on the dark web)

      the real issue is Microsoft’s poor escuse for an operating system, windows 11 seems to be packed full of backdoors and system-level exploits that they refuse to acknowledge or fix by the sounds?

  • HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    The anonymous researcher threatens to release further and more severe exploits, saying that the next Patch Tuesday will be “a big surprise for you, Microsoft.”

    “Your recent actions made me take the difficult decision to drag other companies into this. Be prepared to answer questions,” the rogue researcher said in a blog post.

    🍿

  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    'On April 25th, on the same blog, the researcher warned Microsoft of some sort of a “dead man switch,” likely referring to a mechanism designed to trigger automatically. The researcher claims it took “forever to deploy,” and “it will take you a lot of time to patch what will be published” if it trips.

    “In the off chance, you decide that you want to proceed with whatever funny ideas you have in your head. I’m recommending that you do not do it,” the post reads.’

    Just what funny ideas would microsoft have in their head?