”To gain access to documents showing how intelligence...

"To gain access to documents showing how intelligence agencies choose whether to disclose software security flaws known as ‘zero days,'” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (http://bit.ly/1xd6US0) seeking injunctive relief against the National Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), said an EFF blog post (http://bit.ly/1qkG4p8) Tuesday. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, “seeks transparency on one of the least understood elements of the U.S. intelligence community’s toolset: security vulnerabilities,” said Andrew Crocker, EFF legal fellow, in the post. “A thriving market has emerged for these zero days; in some cases governments -- including the United States -- will purchase these vulnerabilities, which they can use to gain access to targets’ computers,” said the blog post. EFF filed a related FOIA request May 6, but hadn’t received any documents, “despite ODNI agreeing to expedite the request,” it said.