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Because, cynical as this may sound to some people, that's what government does, in the name of national security. The argument that we keep zero-days exploits s
by yeukhon 10y ago
Because, cynical as this may sound to some people, that's what government does, in the name of national security. The argument that we keep zero-days exploits secret is basically security by obfuscation. That will only last until another smart person discovers it and sell that to the highest bidder. But the interest of national security in modern cyber warfare is about gathering intel. Otherwise, we wouldn't be looking at this news right now, we wouldn't have government websites hacked or classified documents stolen or government officials using their personal mail servers, if we are serious about the safety of our national computer infrastructure.
- mistaken 10y agoI'm pretty sure that they buy a lot of these exploits as well. If you can trust the NSA, I don't think that keeping the exploits secret is such a big deal. There are other damaging vulnerabilities that even the state actors doesn't know about and are being exploited by organized crime. It's a cat and mouse game.
- nthcolumn 10y ago..and a very distasteful business, many of these developers live in SEAsia for dubious reasons and peddle their warez to support their sickening lifestyles, I would be ok with certain CIA/SIS proffered solutions in these cases. There is no current shortage of windows 0days that I know of.