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Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]


From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:09:31 -0700

On 04/14/2014 05:02 PM, Nathan Angelacos wrote:
On 04/14/2014 07:14 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:

It's much, much worse than that. I can still read code plenty fine, but
bugs can be
extremely obscure, and triply so with convoluted security code where
people are
actively going after you to find problems in most inventive ways.
Openssl, etc,
probably need to be treated more like Mars Landers than the typical
github forkfest.


You mean this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

;)



That of course wasn't an orbiter, it was a splater. :)

Mike


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