Microsoft shipped Friday; by Tuesday a stranger had reverse-engineered it with official tokens
unixterminal · x · 2026-09-08
A developer recounts a wild sequence: a Microsoft engineer shipped a cool project the Friday before Labor Day, and by Tuesday a stranger (the poster) had already reverse-engineered it — using tokens Microsoft itself had given him — to unlock features still on the roadmap. He posted the code, DM'd the engineer on Teams, and opened issues on the repo, in what he calls a MITM-style leapfrog.
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