{"id":21092,"date":"2016-06-18T19:18:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T00:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21092"},"modified":"2016-06-18T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T00:19:08","slug":"ex-white-house-officials-criticize-vague-rules-around-disclosure-of-hacking-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21092","title":{"rendered":"Ex-White House Officials Criticize Vague Rules Around Disclosure of Hacking Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WHEN U.S. GOVERNMENT\u00a0officials discover a new vulnerability they can use to hack into people\u2019s computers, they have a decision to make: Should they keep it to themselves? Or should they warn the world?<\/p>\n

Exactly how they make that decision is a mystery.<\/p>\n

Now, two top former White House cybersecurity officials are recommending in a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0that the administration be more transparent about how it deals with those vulnerabilities when it discovers them or buys tools to exploit them from the private sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe principles guiding these decisions, as well as a high-level map of the process that will be used to make such decisions, can and should be public,\u201d wrote Ari Schwartz and Robert Knake in a new report for Harvard\u2019s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.<\/p>\n

Members of the intelligence community have an obvious incentive to hold on to undiscovered cyber flaws so they can keep using them to hack their targets. But failing to tell a company about a flaw in its product \u2014 so it can be fixed \u2014 puts users at risk from other hackers.<\/p>\n

The White House\u2019s continued refusal to explain how it balances the priorities of intelligence versus cybersecurity for Americans is leading to a lack of public trust, the authors suggest.<\/p>\n

In 2015, White House officials begrudgingly released heavily redacted guidelines for disclosing cyber threats, which they call the Vulnerabilities Equities Process, to the\u00a0Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>. They also issued a vague White House\u00a0blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But as the public becomes more aware of the government\u2019s ability to go on the technological offensive \u2014\u00a0hacking against adversaries<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 consumer advocates are asking how that capability is regulated.<\/p>\n

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Ex-White House Officials Criticize Vague Rules Around Disclosure of Hacking Tools WHEN U.S. GOVERNMENT\u00a0officials discover a new vulnerability they can use to hack into people\u2019s computers, they have a decision to make: Should they keep it to themselves? Or should they warn the world? Exactly how they make that decision is a mystery. Now, two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2148,2712,11950,765,5567,877],"class_list":["post-21092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-hacking","tag-intelligence","tag-jenna-mclaughlin","tag-surveillance","tag-the-intercept","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21093,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21092\/revisions\/21093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}