WikiLeaks Will Help Tech Companies Fix Security Flaws, Assange Says -<br />By SCOTT SHANE, DAVID E. SANGER and VINDU GOELMARCH 9, 2017<br />The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said the Central Intelligence Agency lost control of a large arsenal of cyberwarfare tools<br />and then covered up that the material was not secured.<br />So Mr. Assange, speaking by video in an online news conference, offered a lifeline to the companies, saying the antisecrecy organization was prepared to share leaked computer code<br />that it has not yet published with Apple, Google and other technology companies to help them fix the flaws described in the leaked C. I.A.<br />documents that WikiLeaks made public this week — the first installment in a far larger collection, Mr. Assange said — showed<br />that the agency had found flaws in the most popular products of the internet age: iPhones, Android phones, software used in every office and even internet-connected televisions.<br />She said that the legal risk to companies using the leaked information to fix their products is minimal, but<br />that the government could make it easy by sharing more information about the vulnerabilities directly with the companies.<br />The companies reacted cautiously to the WikiLeaks offer, saying there could be legal<br />complications in accepting classified information stolen from the government.
