Microsoft meets the hakers and does P2P

"(Hackers are) not just a bunch of disaffected teenagers sitting in their mom's basement. These are professionals that are thinking about these issues."
Noel Anderson
Wireless networking
engineer, Microsoft
http://news.com.com/Microsoft meets the hackers/2009-1002_3-5747813.html?tag=nefd.lede


Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent.
http://www.theregister.com/2005/06/16/filesharing_microsoft/

 

That would be a nice pool for malware for their own antimalware products

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has been done before... I don't think this hasn't been done before anyway...