@waff

Doubt, but it wouldn't surprise me. What I do think they do is research and document vulnerabilities that no one but themselves and three letter glowies know so that they can get away with abusing the general public even when the law doesn't allow them to. New computers come with digital handcuffs baked into the motherboard software and CPUs to enforce installing whatever they want on user's machines, and if they don't have a setup that pleases Microshit's masters Windows can simply refuse to boot or work properly, and given the monopoly they have, a lot of stupid and uneducated people relies on Windows to get shit done, so either they comply or they loose their jobs.