> America's adversaries will continue to identify and exploit these vulnerabilities. So legislation that keeps this information out of the hands of our defense/intelligence community would really only serve to weaken us relative to our enemies, rather than making us safer.
Encouraging freelancers to find vulns and sell them to the highest bidder also makes us less safe. It also encourages vulns to be created in projects for the purpose of later selling them.
Secondly, the American point of view on this is colored by the fact the US has never been the target of a cyberweapon of the power of stuxnet, designed to cripple a large and critical military or industrial system.
Encouraging freelancers to find vulns and sell them to the highest bidder also makes us less safe. It also encourages vulns to be created in projects for the purpose of later selling them.
Secondly, the American point of view on this is colored by the fact the US has never been the target of a cyberweapon of the power of stuxnet, designed to cripple a large and critical military or industrial system.