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An interesting readIn the past, many hackers and security researchers outed glitches without much thought of the impact on Internet users. Microsoft, among others, changed this. As part of its 3-year-old "Trustworthy Computing" initiative to tame security problems in its software, the began an outreach program to support the work of the security community. At the same time, it started chastising those researchers who, it believed, released details of flaws too early.