The Lawfare Podcast: Dave Aitel and Matt Tait on How "Everything You Know About the Vulnerability Equities Process Is Wrong”

Quinta Jurecic
Saturday, August 27, 2016, 2:05 PM

Dave Aitel and Matt Tait come on the podcast to chat with Benjamin Wittes about their recent Lawfare essay critiquing the current status of the Vulnerability Equities Process. Matt and Dave argue that the process by which the US government decides whether or not to disclose software vulnerabilities is fundamentally broken, and that now is the time to discuss how to fix it.

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Dave Aitel and Matt Tait come on the podcast to chat with Benjamin Wittes about their recent Lawfare essay critiquing the current status of the Vulnerability Equities Process. Matt and Dave argue that the process by which the US government decides whether or not to disclose software vulnerabilities is fundamentally broken, and that now is the time to discuss how to fix it. On that note, they also address the recent leak of NSA information by the “Shadow Brokers” group, which included a number of exploits—among them several zero-days.

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Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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