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Security researchers are saying rewritten language that includes hacking tools in a treaty that regulates the global trade in weapons technology, saying it fixes rules that, if implemented in the U.S., would have outlawed much of the daily commerce of the cybersecurity industry. The recent agreement, reached at the annual plenary session of the Wassenaar Arrangement — a 42-nation arms control treaty to which the U.S. is a signatory — was broadly welcomed by policy makers, industry sources and security researchers. “We applaud the hard work of the U.S. interagency and our partners in industry, the research community, and foreign governments to clarify software and technology controls that could have had a negative impact on legitimate cybersecurity,”  Rob Joyce, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, told CyberScoop. The changes provide exemptions to the export control requirements the treaty imposes on hacking tools. Cyber defenders and white hat security researchers engaged in vulnerability disclosure and […]

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