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Exploits being inevitable does not exonerate our elected and appointed officials from their responsibilities and obligation of running the government the people
by sqeaky 11y ago
Exploits being inevitable does not exonerate our elected and appointed officials from their responsibilities and obligation of running the government the people who put them in power want.
Do we want a government that collects threats that are more likely to be used against its own people than anyone else? The USA produces and use more software than any other country, not sharing exploit information fundamentally hurts the USA and the Economy of the USA more than other countries.
- tptacek 11y agoIt's a pretty big leap you've taken here, between your disagreement with the USG's policy regarding vulnerabilities and their "obligation to run the government people want". Clearly, they're not running the government that message boards want. But that's not the same thing!
- sqeaky 11y agoI remember some old document or preseident saying saying something about a "government for the people, by the people". I suspect Google, Microsoft and most businesses involving the Internet and Money at the same time care. They probably want to know about flaws so they don't wind up losing their pants like the Bangladesh bank did recently. There is huge money and real lives on the line here, this is not about appeasing message board hackers. Imagine if some big hack was learned to be known about in a 0-day the FBI withheld? I am fairly certain it was Target's mismanagement, but imagine if the a document was leaked and it showed the government knew about a 0-day that allowed the Target hack. That is small compared to what might actually happened when talking about browser or OS attack surface.
- tptacek 11y agoJust because you personally disagree with something the government is doing doesn't mean they aren't doing it "for the people". You have to compose a real argument.