In fact Microsoft likes the hackers. At least, those which help the firm to locate the faults present on its software. To devote these `hero’ of the shade, Redmond their offered a blog: hackers@microsoft.
The purpose of new the blog, integrated into a broader unit devoted to the developers, is to call on the white hat hackers, these `nice pirates’ who contrary to their more orthodoxe fellow-members, adopt a softer approach. They test a system and observe it under all its seams.
The least detected weaknesses are reported directly to the editor of the software and not sown with the four winds as the “black hats do it”. `Techjunkie’, the first with poster a comment, confirms and approves this approach.
This new operation coming from Redmond prolongs a policy followed for some time. Indeed, the group has initiated for two years already a bringing together with the community of the hackers. An event, baptized `Blue Hat’, has aimed for two years, to establish a dialogue between hackers and engineers de Redmond.
The birth of this blog officializes a relation whose secrecy did not take place any more to be.