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#Microsoft walks back its threat to pursue those who don't disclose responsibly as criminals. They don't apologize, but merely "clarify" their position in a post on X.com today. Since their statement doesn't seem to be on their blog, I am linking to x.com:

https://x.com/msftsecresponse/status/2061293718942908925

This is the type of threat to researchers that @zackwhittaker and I had been looking at in our survey on threats to journalists and researchers. It was impressive to see all of the experts like @GossiTheDog speaking up to slam Microsoft for their blog post of May 27.

Confronted with overwhelming criticism by the security community, Microsoft stepped back.

#responsibledisclosure #Microsoft