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Comment: The BSI must not become the BND's zero-day supplier | heise online
Germany's draft intelligence service reform would require the BSI (Federal Office for Information Security) to disclose zero-day vulnerabilities to the BND intelligence agency before patches exist, fundamentally contradicting the BSI's core mandate to secure national infrastructure and undermining trust with security researchers and critical infrastructure operators.
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The Wire takeaway
If you sell vulnerability disclosure, threat intelligence, or critical infrastructure monitoring to German operators or public authorities, this law just made them your unreliable partner—the BSI will soon be required to hand zero-days to intelligence services rather than patch them, and operators will stop reporting problems they can't trust will be fixed.
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Topics: Cybersecurity · zero-day-disclosure · intelligence-reform · cybersecurity-mandate · regulatory-conflict · critical-infrastructure · trust-erosion