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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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[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I do feel like it's entirely possible it was a bug. I would imagine if they wanted to do a backdoor, they would require some form of key. There would need to be a form of revocation. If an employee, either for the government or Microsoft, went rogue then they could abuse that, or at the very least whistleblow and it would be easily verifiable for other entities.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 37 minutes ago

I do feel like it's entirely possible it was a bug. I would imagine if they wanted to do a backdoor, they would require some form of key.

That would negate plausible deniability.