How is this a characteristic of microsoft being in charge?

edit: for posterity, the title is "Not surprising with Microsoft taking up Skype - A new security hole"

From the surface down to any product, what does not have a hole.

That's hardly Microsoft-specific though. There was even a piece on HN a few days ago noting that no Microsoft products featured in the current top ten list of serious software vulnerabilities, partly because iOS and Android had moved in.

(And if someone with a better memory than me could elaborate on whose list this was, or even post a link, that would be grand.)

You are referring to a rather linkbait-y PR piece from Kaspersky. I'd rather not link to it since the intent behind it was pretty obviously co-branded promotion of KAS and msft rather than independent journalism conducive of critical thinking.

the current title is very un-HN-y

update:

  > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is
  > misleading or linkbait.

see: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

suggest an alternative :)

General consensus (policy?) is that you should try using the original title if possible (in this case "Security hole allows anyone to hijack your Skype account using only your email address"), or maybe some shorter version of it. Avoid adding personal opinion or slander to titles.

Edit: Check the guidelines in the footer.

The article title (“Security hole allows anyone to hijack your Skype account using only your email address”) is perfectly adequate and more informative than your effort.

Ok guys :)

Let's humor also

I'll smile while I'm flagging yours.

I wonder if these security holes start popping up because of the backdoor they built-in for NSA/FBI/police/Indian government/whoever wants access to it.