The Syrians mention Microsoft is "selling the data to the governments". Are they referring to MS reportedly selling zero day exploits, before they are patched?
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/microsoft-said-to-give-zero-day-exploits-to-us-government-before-it-patches-them.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/micros...</a>
They have a long history of doing these kind of things. My question is, how do these blog/twitter hackings really help them? I doubt people are gonna stop using Microsoft email. Maybe they're just trying to publicize, but I feel like these antics are getting a bit old and losing their efficacy.
are these just mercenaries or are they all syrian? how do they 'hack', what type of coding skills do they have that can do this? brute force? genius algos?