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Ex-CIA computer engineer gets 40 years in prison for giving spy agency hacking secrets to WikiLeaks (apnews.com)
submitted 9 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 1 points 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.