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?