McAfee on #Vault7: The CIA has failed its mandate to protect the American people
RT.com
10 Mar, 2017
The alleged CIA practice of deliberately keeping software exploits unpatched for potential access is like not giving sick people penicillin, said John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus, on the latest WikiLeaks data trove.
The anti-secrecy website on Tuesday published a trove of classified documents related to the US arsenal of cyberweapons. Among other things, WikiLeaks alleged that the CIA failed to follow the Obama administration commitment not to hoard “zero day” exploits, vulnerabilities in software that the general IT community, including software producers, are unaware of. The White House pledged to promptly report such vulnerabilities to producers so that they could patch them.
The failure is akin to deliberately deny ill people medicine that government has, told RT John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus, a decision that he called “horrific”.
“The CIA has confirmed that they knew of ‘zero day’ exploits years in advance of the manufacturers of the software finding out,” he said. “Basically, by not fixing those faults it puts customers of Google, Apple, Microsoft and many other American manufacturers at risk, it puts their reputation at risks, and it costs us all billions of dollars.”
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