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From: Vincenzo lozzo Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 8:58 AM To: Jeffrey E. Cc: Joshua Cooper Ramo Subject: "report" on the EU event Jeffrey8Joshua, since both of you helped reviewing the doc I figured I'd share =he results and also thank both of you again. First the things that might be interesting for you in the medium term: =1) The EU is committed to introduce liabilities for software vendors. =hey are yet trying to figure out how to do it but I do think it will =ventually go through in 3-5 years from now, especially as the loT stuff =ecomes bigger. If that works out it will be a pretty good opportunity =o make money in security 2) The EU wants to add to the list of export controlled items stuff like =d printing, bio engineering and some of the drones stuff. This will =ave a number of interesting consequences for various startups (assuming =t does happen) 3) Not security related but I had breakfast with a UK delegation to the =U, they were in Brussels to discuss the single digital market stuff. =pparently it's quite "scary" in the sense that =ultiple countries are actually trying to push to curb services like =etflix to prevail over the local competitors. What's going to =appen in the end is unclear but if that does go through american =onsumer startups will have some troubles Now the bragging part: 1) We finally got Privacy International and a couple of other human =ights organizations to admit they were wrong about exploits. Which is =wesome because I was tired of people labeling anybody associated with =ffensive security as a "merchant of death". Also on =witter: https://twitter.com/richietynan/status/649510644891435008 2) The EU Commission seems to be ready to leave exploits out of the =xport control stuff, not a done deal but that would be awesome 3) The MEP that is sort of driving this essentially incorporated almost =11 our proposals in her submission to the Commission. 4) They will try to help to get us in touch with the people at the =ational level who can get Wassenaar changed. We are talking with the =tate Department and the DHS as well, so hopefully by 2016 we'll =ave a revised version of WA without the horrible wording on exploits Overall I think we had an half-victory which is a lot more than what I =ould have expected! Assuming all of this goes as planned it will be =uite good for the industry because people will be able to do research =hich implies that companies will still have to invest heavily in =ecurity. Thanks again :) V <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-id</key> <integer>102576</integer> EFTA_R1_01604468 EFTA02485855 <key>date-last-yiewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1443776305</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>548651</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01604469 EFTA02485856