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Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nbSQqsfIPbE/security-companies-and-governm.html
Security companies and governments conspire to discover and hide software vulnerabilities that can be used as spyware vectors
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Marcia Hoffman writes about security research companies that work to discover "zero day" vulnerabilities in software and operating systems, then sell them to governments and corporations that want to use them as a vector for installing spyware. France's VUPEN is one such firm, and it claims that it only sells to [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nbSQqsfIPbE/security-companies-and-governm.html
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