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What’s the best way for spy agencies to protect the public: secretly exploit software flaws to gather intelligence, or warn the world and avert malicious cyberattacks?
Rich rewards are on offer to people who can help private companies develop software to exploit vulnerabilities in technology such as smartphones. It might be legal but is it ethical?
Breaches of confidential information are inevitable. But we can limit their size and scope, and therefore their damage.
“Zero-days” are serious vulnerabilities in software that are unknown to the software maker or user. They are so named because developers find out about the security vulnerability the day that it is exploited…
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Fellow for Cyber-security and Internet Governance, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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Professor of Information Technology Management, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Reader in Data Security, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Computer Security, Department of Computer Science, Cardiff Metropolitan University
