“In a move as fiendishly clever as it is galling, Microsoft tells the U.S. government about bugs in its notoriously buggy software before it fixes them so that intelligence agencies can use the vulnerabilities for the purposes of cyberspying. ‘That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes,’ sources tell Bloomberg’s Michael Riley. But still, the biggest software company on Earth is holding off on its blue-screen-of-death problems to turn them into real-life spy features, an impressive feat that will no doubt frustrate consumers.”
http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-waits-fix-software-bugs-nsa-them-first-140237627.html
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