[presootto]

Google is just a bunch of hypocrites. Do you remember what happened when they're new ReCaptcha was reverse engineered?

Let me remind you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8728336

Disclaimer: I work for TAGA (The Arrogant Google Assholes)

[sarciszewski]

https://github.com/darkitecht/InsideReCaptcha lulz, the Streissand effect is a real killer

[driverdan]

Not that I think they need to do so but the person who reverse engineered it didn't give Google 90 days notice.

[nodata]

Do you know if Microsoft actually talked to Google about waiting a couple more days, or are MS just saying that in their press release?

[ddeck]

From the article:

>"We asked Google to work with us to protect customers by withholding details until Tuesday, January 13, when we will be releasing a fix," Microsoft's senior director of research Chris Betz said in a blog post.

[tomiko_nakamura]

You're just citing the press release (or a blog post, or whatever). How does that respond to the original question?

The issue mentioned in the article [https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/de...] says that:

> Microsoft confirmed that they are on target to provide fixes for these issues in February 2015. They asked if this would cause a problem with the 90 day deadline.

< Microsoft were informed that the 90 day deadline is fixed for all vendors and bug classes and so cannot be extended. Further they were informed that the 90 day deadline for this issue expires on the 11th Jan 2015.

So (a) Microsoft is unable to comprehend a simple 90-day policy or (b) do basic math.

[Gigablah]

(c) is perfectly capable of both, and since we're mature and reasonable adults here, we'll leave open the possibility of extenuating factors