Microsoft: Find our flaws
Rich Media
21 April 2008
Microsoft has said it will not sue or press charges against ethical hackers who reveal faults on its sites.
Currently, hackers are often free to exploit software on their own machines, but not on companies' servers.
"The philosophy here is if someone is being nice enough to point out your fly is down, they're really doing you a favour and you should thank them rather than calling the cops and saying you're a pervert," said one of its security strategists, Katie Moussouris.
Ms Moussouris told a conference in the US she was hoping to have a part of a forthcoming standard, progressing through the International Organisation for Standardisation, to protect 'ethical hackers'.
"Don't hate the finder, hate the vulnerability," she told the Register after the conference. "We don't actually want to discourage people who are trying to help us by being iffy about whether we're going to go after them."
The publication reported, Vladuz, a hacker who managed to exploit eBay's network, was arrested after an operation involving Romanian Police, the FBI and the US Secret Service.
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