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NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds
Trailrunner7 writes: When the National Security Agency discovers a new vulnerability that looks like it might be of use in penetrating target networks, the agency considers a number of factors, including how popular the affected software is and where it's typically deployed, before deciding whether to share the new bug. The agency shares most of the bugs it finds, NSA Director Mike Rogers said, but not all of them.
Speaking at an event at Stanford University, Rogers said that the NSA has been told by President Barack Obama that the default decision should be to share information on new vulnerabilities "The president has been very specific to us in saying, look, the balance I want you to strike will be largely focused on when you find vulnerabilities, we're going to share them. By orders of magnitude, when we find new vulnerabilities, we share them," Rogers said.
Speaking at an event at Stanford University, Rogers said that the NSA has been told by President Barack Obama that the default decision should be to share information on new vulnerabilities "The president has been very specific to us in saying, look, the balance I want you to strike will be largely focused on when you find vulnerabilities, we're going to share them. By orders of magnitude, when we find new vulnerabilities, we share them," Rogers said.
So I assume all the deliberately introduced vulnerabilities are excluded from the tally because they technically "did not find them" ?
Doubtful.
Have you seen the economy of the rest of the world? Europe makes US manpower look practically 3rd world, and their energy costs are through the roof. Asia is starting to get expensive for manpower, and the environmental problems they're having are making it hard to attract and retain top global talent because nobody wants shitty water and air. Are you going to go to Russia to avoid domestic spying, 'cause that's not really the first place I think of when I list free and open discourse on privacy matters. Africa...yeah, right.
The US is the worst place to do business, except when you count just about everywhere else in the world. In which case it turns out to be pretty high on the list. And, honestly, it's not really dropping in the rankings.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
If it lets you spy on the iranians... or you know, cause their centrifuges to spin themselves apart. I don't want my intelligence agencies to release that vulnerability until they've spun those fuckers down.
You do realize that your statement here completely misses their point, right? How naive are you that you think only the NSA knows about these vulnerabilities? You really think criminals and other countries like China don't also know them and aren't using them against corporations and individuals in the US?
It's really not in the NSA's job description to be exposing vulnerabilities in public systems so much as exploiting them. We don't have an agency whose job description touches cyber security.
Hahahaha. That's so wrong it's hilarious. A central tent of the NSA's mission is to protect the security of the networks in this country.