Paris set to host difficult negotiations on tackling commercial hacking tools (Alexander Martin, The Record)

A joint diplomatic initiative by the French and British governments to tackle “the proliferation and irresponsible use” of commercial hacking tools is hoping to announce its participants have agreed new rules on the technologies involved in Paris this week. Formally known as the Pall Mall Process, the initiative has to-date struggled to convince all of its participants that it has the capability to actually change how commercial cyber intrusion capabilities (CCICs) are traded and used — partially because many countries do not want to voluntarily amend their own practices.

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