if the United States is going to develop capabilities that allow our military and intelligence community to penetrate widely-used commercial software like Microsoft Windows, then we need to be far more vigilant to ensure that these tools are not stolen
Ed Markey: “if the United States is going to develop capabilities that allow our military and intelligence community to penetrate…”
On the recordJune 12, 2017
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Markey emphasizes the need for vigilance in protecting cyber tools from theft.
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