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Trump administration releases rules on disclosing security flaws

  • November 15, 2017
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The White House's cybersecurity coordinator said the rules are "vital" to ensuring a balance between public disclosure and retaining flaws for intelligence operations.
 
15th November, 2017  By Zack Whittaker
 
The Trump administration has released an unclassified set of rules for deciding if a security vulnerability should be shared or kept private.
 
Rob Joyce, the White House cybersecurity coordinator, said at an event in Washington DC on Wednesday that the rules would end years of secrecy about the so-called vulnerabilities equities process (VEP), and calm rumors that the government has a "vast stockpile" of vulnerabilities it can use for offensive attacks.
 
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