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mattmaroon 82 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilit...

I'm not sure what some of these initialisms are but the whole idea behind disclosing is to take tools away from the bad guys (whoever you think they are) because presumably they'll have found some of them too.

tptacek 82 days ago [–]

CNE: the modern term of art for deploying exploits to accomplish real-world objectives ("computer network exploitation").

LE: law enforcement, a major buyer of CNE tooling.

IC: the intelligence community, the buyer of CNE tooling everyone thinks about first.

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