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Are these governments completely insane? Not allowing security research or even reporting bugs without getting a license is the stupidest thing I've heard in my
by coldcode 11y ago
Are these governments completely insane? Not allowing security research or even reporting bugs without getting a license is the stupidest thing I've heard in my lifetime. The internet cannot be regulated in this fashion without destroying it completely. The world is not a collection of islands we are all in this together and letting any government stand in the way of safety and security is insane.
- Zigurd 11y agoOn top of all that it seems very likely that such licenses will be used to excuse what should be crimes against humanity, in the form of creating exploits and related software to enable hunting down dissidents.
- caf 11y agoI don't believe this was intentional. Wassenaar is an arms control agreement - the intention was probably to regulate the sales of weaponised exploits, not basic research. It's an overreach.
- benmmurphy 11y agoA lot of research will be very close to weaponised. Just browse googles bug tracker and you will find PoCs for a lot of their vulnerabilities.