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