Microsoft Consults Ethical Hackers at Blue Hat

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 19, 2005 @11:48AM from the dare-you-to-break-it dept.

linumax writes "For the second year in a row, Microsoft Corp. invited a small number of hackers onto its Redmond, Wash., campus to crack the company's products for all to see.Blue Hat V2 was held on Thursday and Friday and teamed noted "white hat" hackers with Microsoft employees to break into and expose security weaknesses in the company's products. Over 1,000 Microsoft developers, managers and security experts attended, including Microsoft brass Jim Allchin and Kevin Johnson, co-presidents of the company's Platforms, Products & Services Division."

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I'm sure there's no agenda... by LikwidFlux · 2005-10-19 12:01 · Score: -1, Troll

"Come help us improve our product, we'll just need to know your name, social security number and the subnet in which your IP lies"

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Just your everyday corporate code monkey.
Re:I could have saved them a lot of trouble by hoopmastaflex · 2005-10-19 13:52 · Score: 0, Troll

How come this is modded as insightful where other less anti-microsoft comments are modded as troll?
Yuo fa1la it. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-19 14:03 · Score: -1, Troll

may well reMain