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Did anything useful come out of the "Vault" revelations? I mean for examples improvements in the WWW, PC hardware/software, browsers, etc.



The wikipedia page on the vault 7 mentioned a number of specific vendors that patched their software, cisco for example [0]:

> Cisco quickly reassigned staff from other projects to turn their focus solely on analyzing the attack and to figure out how the CIA hacking worked, so they could help customers patch their systems and prevent criminal hackers or spies from using similar methods.

> On 20 March, Cisco researchers confirmed that their study of the Vault 7 documents showed the CIA had developed malware which could exploit a flaw found in 318 of Cisco's switch models and alter or take control of the network.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#Cisco


I dont think so, certainly nothing on the scale of the original Snowden stuff which by all accounts shook up google et al.




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