Why everyone is left less secure when the NSA doesn’t help fix security flaws

In a frank discussion about the government's approach to vulnerabilities in cyber-infrastructure, former National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden said the agency is not always "ethically or legally compelled" to help fix flaws it knows about. If the agency thinks that no one else will be able to exploit vulnerability, it leaves the problem unfixed to aid in its own spying efforts. That approach might be convenient for the NSA, but it needlessly endangers the security of Americans' computers.