On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:

They haz teh codz and they want to make friends with the tech industry:

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"We have decided to work with them, to give them some exclusive access to some of the technical details we have, so that fixes can be pushed out," Assange said. Once tech firms had patched their products, he said, he would release the full data of the hacking tools to the public." http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/articl...

WL needs to be publishing ticket system type notes on what they're doing here. There need to be timeouts after which exploit code is published regardless of what industry does with it or not. Need to be saying they sent 8 itemized exploits to Microsoft, 13 to Android, etc. With all this "making friends", what "making friends" is, or may end up, going on with secrets in general? Is there no Journo or Tech that can withstand the temptation, or the externally imposed necessity, of becoming "friendly"?