Tag Archives: OpenSSL
Heartbleed, Open Source, and Internet Security
May 19, 2014 – 6:00 am
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On page A5 of the April 24, 2014 issue of The Wall Street Journal, there is a full page “Paid Advertisement” with the title “Internet Security and Heartbleed.” The ad, which is in the form of a letter from Klaus Brandstätter, CEO of software company HOB, touts HOB-SSL as a replacement for…
My Heart-bleed[s] for Open Source and Monocultures
May 5, 2014 – 6:00 am
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To all supporters of ubiquitous open-source software … my sincere condolences. Who would have thought that the innocent mistake of a volunteer programmer trying to “improve” OpenSSL, and which was subsequently missed by a volunteer tester, would have led to what may turn out to have been…