President Barack Obama has explicitly decided that when any federal agency discovers a vulnerability in online security, the agency should come forward, rather than exploit it for intelligence purposes, according to The New York Times, citing unnamed “senior administration officials.”
However, while there is now a stated “bias” towards disclosure, Obama has also created a massive exception to this policy, if "there is a clear national security or law enforcement need."
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Interesting...but exception or not have these agencies not been compelled to disclose other things in the past...and later we find that they have blatently disreagrded that...so I am asking myself what will change this time...and the sad answer is ...NOTHING...IMHO. :(
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That is my opinion as well. Also to me it seems like a publicity stunt in the wake of the disclosure that the NSA knew about Heartbleed but did nothing to alert people.
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