Commerce Department agreed to rewrite proposed U.S. implementation of Wassenaar Arrangement rules. The rules, most argued, were too broad, sweeping up legitimate technologies such as penetration testing software, as well as white-hat research that involves the development of proof of concept exploits for new vulnerabilities. A 60-day comment period ended on July 20 and an outpouring of opposition from more than 300 technology companies and individual researchers against the first round of rules helped sway BIS. The new rules proposal could show up anywhere in the next couple of months.
Source: https://threatpost.com/unusual-re-do-of-us-wassenaar-rules-applauded/114096/