[avaer]

It's also quite the blame gymnastics. The code that enables the bad actors was written, published, and distributed at massive scale by Microsoft. The "crime" they are accusing the researcher of is telling the world about it.

It would be an interesting case if the defendant had good representation.

[rurban]

The interesting case seen to be that the researcher apparently got laid off recently by this MS team, and thus has a 6 month NDA. Apparently he still tried to get bug bounties from inside knowledge of these criminal backdoors. That's what is being talked about behind.

A true popcorn case if this would go to court. Would cause lot of governments to think about their backend choices.