Lawmakers Say Favored Nsa Reform Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough

A group of lawmakers concerned about weaknesses in the most popular surveillance reform bill circulating on Capitol Hill wants to insert an amendment that would bar the National Security Agency from weakening encryption standards or exploiting large-scale Internet security vulnerabilities.

According to a report in the Guardian newspaper, Rep Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), and other House members want to stop the NSA from “utilizing discovered zero-day flaws,” like the Heartbleed flaw made public in April that compromised countless online systems. The proposed amendment, the report claims, would also not allow the NSA “to create them, nor to prolong the threat to the Internet” by failing to warn against vulnerabilities.