Microsoft is ticking off a lot of researchers this week by claiming that those who dump proof-of-concept exploits for vulnerabilities they have not responsibly disclosed are enabling criminal activity, and that Microsoft will track them and bring cases against them.
To me it reads as English is not their first language and they’re using idioms that are more common in another language, but oh yes, they do sound extremely pissed off, either way.
It seems like, at least according to them, they had some kind of deal, for payment, worked out with MSFT, and then MSFT reneged on it and just pretended such deal never existed.
Deny delay defame playbook seems to have gone into effect basically instantly.
My absolute guess would be that this person is somebody who either had been previously jailed for some kind of cybercrime, or at least was under serious threat of that from some country… MSFT decided to ‘employ’ them, and then burn them.
So, beyond being pissed, they’re desperate. They were trying to go legit, be legit, and then MSFT fucked them. They mention that they will be homeless because of what MSFT has done.
Basically the plot of a fair number of cyberpunk stories, but well, that is where we are right now.
… either way, extremely, hilariously obvious at this point that the NSA has been calling a fair number of the shots at MSFT for a while now.