Zack WhittakerOct 29

🚨🚨🚨 Absolutely insane stuff here. @lorenzofb spent months working on this story.

Peter Williams, former L3Harris Trenchant boss — the division that makes cyber exploits, zero-days and spyware for Western governments — has pleaded guilty to selling Trenchant's exploits to Russia.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/former-l3harris-trenchant-boss-pleads-guilty-to-selling-zero-day-exploits-to-russian-broker/

Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker | TechCrunch

Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of involvement.

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@zackwhittaker @lorenzofb
This is why "backdoors" mandated by your "friendly government" are nonsense.

Not long before criminals and nasty governments would have the "keys".

Oct 29 at 6:49pmWeb