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Apple engineers working to address remaining CIA exploits, but two factors hampering efforts

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<p>Update: AP reports that Wikileaks has decided to address the first problem by giving tech companies details of the tools.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Julian Assange: WikiLeaks has decided to give details of CIA hacking tools to tech companies .</p>
<p>&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) March 9, 2017 (https://twitter.com/AP/status/839856439258726401)</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-firms-rush-to-assess-damage-from-cia-leak-1489028040?mod=rss_Technology" target="_blank">WSJ[/url] reports that Apple engineers are working to address the remaining iOS exploits reportedly <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/07/cia-ios-malware-wikileaks/" target="_blank">used by the CIA[/url], but they and other tech companies are being hampered by two factors. The first is lack of any access to the code itself.</p>

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Apple engineers quickly began calling colleagues to bring them up to speed on the data dump and to coordinate the company’s response to this new security threat, according to a person familiar with the situation […]</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Companies now find themselves in a difficult position: They believe that at least two organizations have access to hacking code that exploits their products — the CIA and WikiLeaks — but neither one is sharing this software</span> …</p>

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