<story><title>Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/microsoft-said-to-give-zero-day-exploits-to-us-government-before-it-patches-them.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dguido</author><text>FFS people, this is called MAPP and the program has been public and a huge security success for the last few years. Microsoft advises lots of security companies about patches slightly before they are issued. That way, everyone has options on day 1 and people aren&amp;#x27;t scrambling for additional mitigations every Patch Tuesday.&lt;p&gt;If you want to be outraged, check out all the Chinese companies on the list of partners!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;msrc&amp;#x2F;collaboration&amp;#x2F;mapp.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;msrc&amp;#x2F;collaboration&amp;#x2F;mapp.a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them</title><url>http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/microsoft-said-to-give-zero-day-exploits-to-us-government-before-it-patches-them.shtml</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nullandnull</author><text>This has been going on for years. It&amp;#x27;s a program that Microsoft created for passing along 0days to AV Vendors and companies so they could create detection mechanisms for it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;msrc&amp;#x2F;collaboration&amp;#x2F;mapp.aspx#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;msrc&amp;#x2F;collaboration&amp;#x2F;mapp.as...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>