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Comment by LelouBil | Hacker News Reader

Very important info: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/28/microsoft-0-...

In the linked Microsoft blog post, they say :

> The details of these vulnerabilities were not shared with Microsoft prior to release, and the disclosures put our customers at unnecessary risk.

So are they lying ? Why would Nightmare-Eclipse not report them if they are not ?

It's a very weird situation

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> the disclosures put our customers at unnecessary risk.

That statement irks me. Responsible disclosure or not, It's Microsoft themselves that put their customers at risk, not the researcher.

The industry, on average, approves of responsible disclosure because there's a tacit agreement that making risk-proof software isn't feasible. Though admittedly some companies don't seem to be trying very hard anymore.

It's not a dichotomy either, they can both have put the customers at risk.

Especially since the only explanation for why this exists is as a backdoor.

Contrary to popular belief, it is NOT anyone's obligation to do free work for megacorps. If anyone is testing MS products for free, or reporting bugs for free, that's a gracious favor, nothing more.

Yeah, but the customer in this statement being entities that requested this backdoor. Not the people/companies who paid for the licences.

>Why would Nightmare-Eclipse not report them if they are not ?

Maybe they're a foreign intelligence cutout masquerading as a burned researcher.

>Maybe they're a foreign intelligence cutout masquerading as a burned researcher.

Whoever silently downvoted this, I'd love to hear why you so strongly disagree with my assessment.

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