To be fair, they don't monitor whether the 0Day exploits are widely used so they have no idea when they should make them public for general security purposes. (

To be fair, they don't monitor whether the 0Day exploits are widely used so they have no idea when they should make them public for general security purposes. (yes, that's sarcasm) But the way the entities operate that are actually seeking these, is by thinking of themselves as outside of the regular set of rules and even reality. They are seeking 0Day exploits with an assumption that the individual or individuals that provide them will not sell them to someone else or even use them for themselves. I can guarantee that these "cyber wars" are going to result in some sort of cluster-fuck-up at some point because humans have a tendency to entrust the least responsible people with the most devastating technologies even remotely before we fully understand the ramifications. On a side note; please take note of the fact that many of the current issues regarding anonymity and security on the internet and in technology in general is a direct fractal result of prior decisions by researchers and developers to not focus on anonymity and security as a primary requirement. The internet is a security nightmare, precisely because some researchers decided to ignore security requirements early on.