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Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation | TechCrunch

After a security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products, along with code to exploit them, the company is now threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them. Microsoft’s veiled threat reignites a long-running argument over what responsibility, if any, security researchers have to disclose vulnerabilities affecting large and wealthy tech giants. On Wednesday, Microsoft published a blog post criticizing the researcher, who goes by the handle “Nightmare Ecl...

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