WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with Apple, other tech companies<article>
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After WikiLeaks dumped more than 8,000 documents leaked from inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, Apple said it had already fixed most of the exploits the agency had found to hack into iPhones. But without seeing the code the CIA has, Apple can’t be sure it’s fixed all of those bugs. WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange said Thursday he will share the code, which was withheld from the published documents, with tech companies like Apple.</p><p>
“We have decided to work with [tech companies] to give them exclusive access to the additional technological details we have so that fixes can be developed and pushed out,” Assange said in a live-streamed press conference from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he lives. “Once this material is effectively disarmed by us we will publish additional details.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3179091/security/wikileaks-will-share-cia-hacking-tools-with-apple-other-tech-companies.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with Apple, other tech companies
