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    1. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 15 Nov 2017

      The percentage of vulnerabilites the government discloses to vendors is largely PR: The public harm of maintaining 10 high severity flaws far outweighs the benefit of disclosing 90 low severity ones. We need to know the severity of disclosed vulnerabilities, not just the number.

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    2. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 15 Nov 2017

      That government is finally opening up about the Vulnerabilities Equities Process is positive, but Joyce's refusal to acknowledge, confront, and discuss remediating the problems highlighted by NSA's ETERNAL suite knocking out US & UK hospitals shows we have a long way to go.

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    3. Vess‏ @VessOnSecurity 15 Nov 2017
      Replying to @Snowden

      Uhm, by the time these hospitals were hit, the NSA had (allegedly) informed Microsoft about the vulnerabilities and Microsoft had (definitely) issued patches for them.

      1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
    4. Vess‏ @VessOnSecurity 15 Nov 2017
      Replying to @VessOnSecurity @Snowden

      You can blame the NSA for letting their shit get stolen, or The Shadowbrokers for releasing it to the public, or the hospitals for not patching - but not the NSA for not disclosing responsibly.

      6 replies 2 retweets 9 likes
    5. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 15 Nov 2017
      Replying to @VessOnSecurity

      Be serious. That's only true if you presume the only appropriate time for disclosure is when your bugs are literally advertised on the internet by the Shadowbrokers. Take at look at the age of the exploits, then contrast it to the age of the disclosure.

      1 reply 11 retweets 38 likes
    6. Vess‏ @VessOnSecurity 15 Nov 2017
      Replying to @Snowden

      I understand your point, and I agree that this would be a preferable scenario. But what I am saying is that as soon as the vulnerability was known to have been leaked, the NSA disclosed it responsibly - exactly according to the VEP process.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    7. Vess‏ @VessOnSecurity 15 Nov 2017
      Replying to @VessOnSecurity @Snowden

      You can say that the VEP process has flaws - but you can't blame the NSA for not following it in this case.

      9 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    8. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 15 Nov 2017
      Replying to @VessOnSecurity

      Respectfully, I disagree. That policy permits a thing does not by itself establish its propriety. NSA willfully concealed a catastrophic vulnerability for *years* -- in a manner demonstrably harmful to general welfare. They focused on what they *could* do rather than *should* do.

      3 replies 9 retweets 41 likes
    9. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 15 Nov 2017
      Replying to @Snowden @VessOnSecurity

      You may be misreading my contention as "NSA doesn't comply with the VEP." My argument (see original tweets) is that the VEP is broken.

      1 reply 6 retweets 19 likes
    10. Vess‏ @VessOnSecurity 15 Nov 2017
      Replying to @Snowden

      I see; that's a valid point and I don't disagree with it. I'm not saying "I agree", either, because, honestly, I don't see how it can be improved. We can't know in advance which vulns will be stolen and published, and we can't realistically expect powerful vulns not to be kept.

      2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
      Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 15 Nov 2017
      Replying to @VessOnSecurity

      The most conservative solution is a strict limit on length of retention: if it's older than 90 days (some argue 180), it's time to roll over to a new vuln and patch the previous. When replacements can no longer be produced, that's not a loss; it means defense has finally matured.

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        2. x0rz‏ @x0rz 15 Nov 2017
          Replying to @Snowden @VessOnSecurity

          So NSA would mass exploit all of their target within 90 days and then "throw" away the vulnerability? That would encourage them to infect massively targets, which isn't a good option either. What do you think about that?

          3 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
        3. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 15 Nov 2017
          Replying to @x0rz @VessOnSecurity

          Exploits aren't necessary for every target every 90 days, only for installing the original implant. Implant survive long after the exploit is dead. And don't forget NSA has far more than 1 exploit at any given time.

          3 replies 11 retweets 27 likes
        4. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 15 Nov 2017
          Replying to @Snowden @x0rz @VessOnSecurity

          Everybody, even the exploit broker (who get to sell more bugs), benefits from a faster turnover. When lazy RCEs becomes too hard, offense simply returns them to traditional mechanisms (social, proximity, supply chain, human compromise) that never stopped working.

          3 replies 10 retweets 24 likes
        5. Edward Snowden‏Verified account @Snowden 15 Nov 2017
          Replying to @Snowden @x0rz @VessOnSecurity

          And the idea that NSA judiciously limits the scope of targets is simply not persuasive on the evidence: we had something close to 200,000 implants active on just the systems I could see. FBI routinely does 8000+ in one go:https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53d4n8/fbi-hacked-over-8000-computers-in-120-countries-based-on-one-warrant …

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