Whatever you might think of Microsoft and privacy and such, in the last few years (in part thanks to Smith‘s focus on this), it has been really good about pushing back on government surveillance and interference. This blog post seems to be the next step in that effort. I‘m sure that plenty of readers here have a reflexive dislike of Microsoft (no need to express it in the comments, we know already), but the company has been taking a strong stand against excessive surveillance and other efforts to weaken the public‘s security. Calling out the failures of the intelligence community in not disclosing these kinds of vulnerabilities is another good step, and it‘s good to see Microsoft make such a clear statement on it.