Re:The FBI is working hard to keep you unsafe
by tptacek on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @06:12PM
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Yes. Vendors are usually hostile to researchers, and vendors generally do feel entitled to researcher work-product. Their feeling is, it's their code, so they're entitled to know about problems with it.
The other one seems clearer: "Disclosing vulnerabilities to vendors kills exploits." Well, yes. The problem is that, in the present situation, endpoint security is terrible. It seems unlikely that our government has made it possible for themselves to break endpoint security, but not the Chinese or any other nation, organized crime group, or other non-state actor with some software smarts. It may take some catastrophic infrastructure penetration or super-Snowden leak to show why this is unwise.