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Title    US to Rethink Hacker Tool Export Rules After Many Complaints from Security Professionals
Date    Friday July 31 2015, @07:49PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the another-outbreak-of-commonsense dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/07/31/1246229

Arthur T Knackerbracket has uncovered this outbreak of common sense:

Proposed changes to the US government's export controls on hacking tools will likely be scaled back following widespread criticism from the infosec community, a government spokesman has said.

"A second iteration of this regulation will be promulgated," a spokesman for the US Department of Commerce told Reuters, "and you can infer from that that the first one will be withdrawn." The proposed restrictions are required by the Wassenaar Arrangement, a 41-nation pact that first came into effect in 1996 and which calls for limits on trade of "dual-use goods," meaning items that have both civilian and military applications.

In 2013, the list of goods governed under the Arrangement was amended to include technologies used for testing, penetrating, and exploiting vulnerabilities in computer systems and networks. Each company participating in the Arrangement is responsible for implementing the required export controls as it sees fit, but the rules proposed by the US were more sweeping than those put forth by other countries.

Security experts have complained that the language of the new rules, which the Commerce Department has made available for public comment since May, is overly broad and could have a chilling effect on the entire information security industry.


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Links

  1. "Proposed changes to the US government's export controls" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/30/us_to_rethink_wassenaar/
  2. "told" - http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/29/us-software-exports-regulation-idUSKCN0Q32OQ20150729?feedType=RSSfeedName=technologyNews
  3. "Wassenaar Arrangement" - http://www.wassenaar.org/
  4. "made available" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/20/us_export_controls_0days/
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=8622

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