Disclosing found exploits allows developers to patch them out and improve security of everyone, which includes all the other alphabet boys and regular citizens.
There's no way to know that you're the only one who found any given exploit. Letting an exploit stay unpatched opens up an attack vector for everyone, not just you.
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Kalkaline@leminal.space 9 months agoGiving away methods for hacking/spying ensures your country is at a disadvantage.
S410@kbin.social 9 months ago
Kalkaline@leminal.space 9 months ago
Disclosing found exploits to the development team is far different than exposing those exploits to unfriendly countries or in this case those that would expose state secrets.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Tune extent yes, but it also makes us all more secure. Even if you think our own government is doing a good job all the other governments have these holes too.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 months ago
It also enables innocent people to be protected from foreign governments.