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Comment by jankeymeulen | Hacker News Reader

Pick your poison. As Snowden revealed, Cisco was/is regularly backdoored by US intelligence as well.

I'll take the poison that has freedom of speech/religion/press please.

True, but unless USA ordered Cisco to do that, it's a bit different. NSA will use whatever it can to spy on others, it's obvious

I just with that the NSA had policies to disclose backdoors to appropriate business entities 30 days after discovery/purchase. They could still use 0-days, but at least the window would be reduced so the stockpile isn't unleashed on the world at large being a much bigger risk to security.

30 days is useless. Intelligence operations take years to unfold. Banning NSA from using zero-days doesn't mean everybody else is banned from using zero-days, including PRC.

I didn't say they couldn't use them.. only that they should have to disclose them to the company(ies) responsible.

If they get a zero-day for windows, they can use it all they want... but they should have to disclose it to MS after 30-60 days of knowledge. The NSA is as responsible for technology security in the US as much as spying operations. They need to find a balance to do both.

If they responsibly disclose and that happens before other nation states discover and take advantage of zero-days it makes it much better for everyone.

...and every American tech company is a US intelligence front.

Who do you think the bigger spy is though, USA v China? Let's be honest.

USA by far.

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