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Obama leaves loophole open for NSA to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities

The White House didn’t know about Heartbleed and didnt exploit the OpenSSL bug to snoop, it said on Friday. The notion of responsible disclosure is more of a bias than a requirement, senior administration officials said on Saturday. In fact, officials said that President Obama has left a huge loophole open in the form of an exception for a clear national security or law enforcement need A cyberwar expert says the White Houses directive to limit the exploitation of software bugs would require elite spying units to empty out their pockets of thousands of exploits.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/04/14/obama-leaves-loophole-open-for-nsa-to-exploit-zero-day-vulnerabilities/

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