The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) are designed to prevent malicious discovery and use of vulnerabilities, but these acts can also impede legitimate security research.
But opponents, including the White House, warn it will complicate U.S. relationships abroad, impede national security investigations and open the floodgates to similar lawsuits by foreigners against the U.S. government.
Within days of the arrest of the burglars, the White House tapes show him instructing the CIA to have the FBI stop its investigation on the trumped-up ground that its continuation would impede national security, and promising to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in hush money for those arrested.
Inefficient fossil fuel subsidies encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change.
The police unit responsible for fighting the drug dealers is constantly impeded by other security services.
"Security impedes prosperity, but at the same time, poverty feeds extremists".
The CIA's operation and management of the program complicated, and in some cases impeded, the national security missions of other Executive Branch agencies.
8) The CIA's operation and management of the programme complicated, and in some cases impeded, the national security missions of other executive branch agencies.
"You would impede investor protection.
