Vault 8: Wikileaks publishes sourcecode from last spring's CIA Vault 7 cyberweapons leak
by Cory Doctorow from on (#37JA3)
In March, Wikileaks published the Vault 7 leaks, a cache of CIA cyberweapons created under the doctrine of "NOBUS" ("No One But Us"), in which security agencies suppress the publication of bugs in widely used software, choosing instead to develop attack-tools that exploit these bugs, on the assumption that no one else will ever discover those bugs and use them to attack the people they're charged with defending. (more")