WikiLeaks pledges to release software code of CIA hacking tools to tech firms

WikiLeaks will release to tech firms the software code of CIA hacking tools that were designed to compromise smartphones and other products, the group’s founder said Thursday, attempting to position himself as a defender of cybersecurity and probably further antagonizing the intelligence community.

“We have decided to work with” the firms, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said at a news conference, “to give them some exclusive access to the additional technical details we have so that fixes can be developed and pushed out, so that people can be secured.”

Once the patches are sent out — or, as Assange put it, “once this material is effectively disarmed by us” — WikiLeaks will release more details publicly, he said.

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