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chance_state on Jan 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Micr...

I think it's more like, "We find so many critical bugs, let's blow some of them for PR once we discover that adversaries are using them too."

swarnie_ on Jan 15, 2020 [–]

Bull.... A more likely scenario is they've been sat on this for years and finally saw another actor using it in the wild.

chance_state on Jan 16, 2020 | [–]

So... exactly what I said?

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