So I trust EFF's analysis more here. However this is newer than the latest article I've seen from EFF. So, where's Bloomberg's technical analysis on the subject? On Apr 11, 2014 5:50 PM, "Jeffrey Walton" <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-11/nsa-said-to-have-used-heartbleed-bug-exposing-consumers.html > > The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a > flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now > dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical > intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said. > > The NSA’s decision to keep the bug secret in pursuit of national > security interests threatens to renew the rancorous debate over the > role of the government’s top computer experts. > > Heartbleed appears to be one of the biggest glitches in the Internet’s > history, a flaw in the basic security of as many as two-thirds of the > world’s websites. Its discovery and the creation of a fix by > researchers five days ago prompted consumers to change their > passwords, the Canadian government to suspend electronic tax filing > and computer companies including Cisco Systems Inc. to Juniper > Networks Inc. to provide patches for their systems. > ... > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography >
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