Comments on: Microsoft wants to meet more hackers

Software giant plans to invite hackers back for twice-annual meetings to show developers flaws discovered in Microsoft products.

Will it actually work?

I myself think that it would not only be hard to find these hackers,
but also to actually get them to come and meet with Microsoft and
show them what they do with their time. Do they get in any trouble
if they do something illegal in the process of their hack?

[malabrm1]

MSFT Should Pay the Blue Hatters

The key line in the article is: "Microsoft doesn't want reseachers to go public with information on vulnerabilities before the company has had a chance to provide a patch." Well, of course they don't want people to see how slow they maybe on the uptake. And heck - this is, after all, a great deal for MSFT. Inviting a passle of hackers for a drink is a dirt-cheap way to get these folks to show them the difficiencies in MSFT programs. But pre-screen the group a bit better, offer those who make the cut a big consulting fee and just watch how to optimize the MSFT Blue Hat confab. :) I trust that MSFT offers critical patches - those that they are aware are urgently needed - without the intervention of outside consultants. :(

microsoft has cool trash bins

when i was just a young punk kid with my first
car a friend and I drove out to the campus to
pick up garbage.. and microsoft by far had the
most high tech dumpsters in the neighborhood..
man.. like a safe! thats cool that microsoft
wants to be social.. I should just go over there
and loiter

Stinger!

Cat in the Hat. Green eggs and ham meat for breakfast mice! Technically speaking any of these sorts of hackers that show up are in violation of law and apprehensible! Would this be considered aiding and abetting known criminals? Sort of like "the US Army wants you gang-banger"!