GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits

bitbasher•41 minutes ago

I can’t help but feel Microsoft will regret this.

Guy finds zero days and gets no compensation. Instead gets banned.

Guy sells zero days elsewhere.

__d•41 minutes ago

Shoot the messenger. That’ll fix it.

0cf8612b2e1e•44 minutes ago

Surely, the public string of exploits means he can find gainful employment from any of the various spooks?

cortesoft•about 1 hour ago

Researcher seems a bit unhinged.

ryukoposting•9 minutes ago

Takes a certain kind of crazy to pay your bills with bug bounties.

Animats•about 1 hour ago

That may go with the task of looking for low-level security holes.

xeonmc•25 minutes ago

Or being forced into homelessness by Microsoft

jrflowers•about 1 hour ago

> forcing them to pack up and move shop to GitLab instead.

Blocked user @nightmare-eclipse

Looks like they’re banned on GitLab as as well?

parliament32•about 1 hour ago

I suspect MS threatened them with a SmartScreen blackhole for the domain, I'm not surprised they pulled it.

josephg•10 minutes ago

I don’t like the idea Microsoft can bully other websites into blocking content they don’t like.

akerl_•1 minute ago

Do we have any evidence they did that other than the comment you replied to speculating?

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