U.S. Government Uses Early Knowledge Of Microsoft Bugs For Spying

Forget PRISM, this is real super-villain stuff. Buggy software isn't just annoying--the right compromised code can leave private information vulnerable to clever hackers for as long as the problem is unnoticed. The only thing that could make bugs worse? Government agencies gaining access to the vulnerabilities before everyone else, and using spies to exploit them. Before Microsoft releases a public patch of to a software bug, it passes along that information to U.S. intelligence agencies, say tw...