> Microsoft did pay a $100k bounty to a hacker. No, they paid US$100k to a white-hat, someone who struggles against black-hat hackers. If a headline can't dist

> Microsoft did pay a $100k bounty to a hacker. No, they paid US$100k to a white-hat, someone who struggles against black-hat hackers. If a headline can't distinguish between white hats and black hats, educated writers normally add some words to clarify their meaning -- and they did. But the submitter omitted those words. Hence, lying.