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I'm sure Microsoft is keeping a very close eye on what they are actually doing. Run them in a virtual environment, see what they do to the environment and what
by LorenPechtel 7y ago
I'm sure Microsoft is keeping a very close eye on what they are actually doing. Run them in a virtual environment, see what they do to the environment and what internet communications they make. When it's done destroy the environment.
If it tried to do something like a DDoS it would be identified as doing so and marked as malware, end of test.
- bediger4000 7y ago> I'm sure Microsoft is keeping a very close eye on what they are actually doing. This seems like a questionable assumption. Microsoft is in the media for being "better" these days, but doing this at all seems like bad judgement. MSFT has lawyers to win a fair use case, I'll agree to that, but large corporations don't have a lot of incentive to minimize negative externalities, because of the lawyers and money for lawyers.
- fortran77 7y agoOh c'mon. Microsoft takes security seriously and is genuinely trying to make sure Windows users aren't plagued with malware. And internally, Microsoft has a good track record of not having any data breeches.
- Bartweiss 7y agoEven with utter cynicism, "Microsoft hosts DOS attack on Apple" is such a disastrous headline that it's well worth avoiding, and that's before getting into any liability for botching something like this.