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Heartbleed Explanation
2014-04-12
Heartbleed is a truly awful flaw in OpenSSL, a key industry product used to secure communications (e.g. online bank transactions, credit cards, passwords) between your browser and servers on the internet.

Click this link.
Posted by:Squinty

#5  Looks like a placed "bug" to me.

Bright Pebbles,
See this from Bloomberg.
Posted by: Marilyn de Medici1568   2014-04-12 15:35  

#4  Looks like a placed "bug" to me.

Automated static code analysis software such as Boundschecker etc would have found it.

To have security code without boundchecker looking at it sounds negligent, to have it in code for networking is more than negligent.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-04-12 07:38  

#3  I recommend government funded 'First Amendment Zones' where people could gather and use the internets safely, and without threat of computer bugs.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-04-12 06:07  

#2  Also, so you see what Heartbeat is
Posted by: newc   2014-04-12 04:11  

#1  Here is heartbeat for two phase auth - for you admins out there.
Posted by: newc   2014-04-12 04:08  

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