Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

Microsoft seems to be in free fall:

After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them, the company is now threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them. Microsoft’s veiled threat reignites a long-running argument over what responsibility, if any, security researchers have to disclose vulnerabilities affecting large and wealthy tech giants.

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where's the moral high|low ground in findings such as this ... :thinking:

Microsoft (or Microslop depending on your sense of humor) seems to have totally lost the plot in both operating systems, LLMs and security / bug hunting.

Another example of the "misuse your power" principle that rules in the US.