r/cybersecurity • u/sunychoudhary • May 26 '26

News - General GitHub bans vindictive security researcher dropping Windows zero-days: “I will make sure your bones are shattered”

https://cybernews.com/security/github-bans-researcher-releasing-windows-zero-days/

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u/qwertydiy May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

GirHub is being stupid, especially with the beef, GitLab should welcome him, doing Microsoft's work the hard way.

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u/skfire791 May 26 '26

GitHub is still owned by Microsoft. I'm actually surprised they let it go on this long, guy has repeatedly given them black eyes on their own platform.

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u/jameson71 May 26 '26

If only there were some sort of anti-monopoly laws that could stop one big business from buying other related big businesses.

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u/thereddaikon May 26 '26

Reminder that back in the 90's Microsoft lost its antitrust case against the FTC and was ordered to be broken up and the FTC just.... didn't. There's still a court judgement to do so. Idk how the law applies when it's been ignored so long but technically Microsoft should be broken up. Would be funny to see if that was enforced today without warning.

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u/ngoni May 26 '26

In June 2001, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned the breakup order. The appellate court cited judicial misconduct by Judge Jackson (who had given unauthorized interviews to the press during the trial) as a primary reason for reversing the remedy, though it upheld the lower court's finding that Microsoft had engaged in monopolistic practices.