Category: Security

Politics, Security

Why should the CIA disclose security vulnerabilities?

The CIA and other United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies have valid cause to research and exploit digital security vulnerabilities to further the national interest and the public welfare. But when it comes to the hoarding of undisclosed vulnerabilities, they’ve recently made choices that undermine both. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/europe/wikileaks-cia-hacking.html But Ben Wizner, the director of the …