A new blog has popped up within the MSDN blogs over at Microsoft. The title is “hackers @ microsoft” with a url of http://blogs.msdn.com/hackers/. Currently, there is only a single post to the blog from a user named techjunkie.

According to the post, “Microsoft employs some of the best hackers in the world and actively recruits them and develops them”. These so called “white hat hackers” currently hack Microsoft applications prior to release to find weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

What I found interesting in the post was the statement, “A true hacker is someone who is curious and wants to learn how systems work. This can and of course at Microsoft is done in an ethical, legal manner”. Ethical, legal manner? Does this mean that Microsoft has fired all its programmers that are part of the their special “reversed engineering” team?

I have a membership with Netflix and recently noticed that they now include a Community section accessible by members. The new Community section appears to be an attempt by Netflix to add social networking to its site and begin competing with well known social network sites for movie fans like Flixster.

The new social networking features include “top 10 lists”, popular movies by hometown, and a friends list showing recent activity and movie ratings. Although none of the features are unique or groundbreaking, Netflix has a large membership and resources and could become the dominant force in social networking for movie fans.

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