[vox] FBI and Microsoft shut down botnet

[Brian Lavender]

I see an irony repeated here. Microsoft designs bad software. But rather
than taking the blame, they create a diversion and have the FBI clean
up their mess, or at least try to clean it up. There are still botnet
controllers out there according to the article.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2420046,00.asp

If you find a vulnerability in their software, you can be in violation
of the law for disclosing it.

https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/vulnerability-reporting-faq

Yet, the DMCA makes things worse. 
https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca

brian
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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture