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

Sun Apr 13 16:52:50 UTC 2014

* randy at psg.com (Randy Bush) [Sun 13 Apr 2014, 16:52 CEST]:
>>>the point of open source is that the community is supposed to be 
>>>doing this.  we failed.
>>Versus all of the closed source bugs that nobody can know of or do 
>>anything about?
>for those you can blame the vendor.  

BSAFE is almost worse if you go by the recent advisories that have 
been released about it.  Many vendors incorporated OpenSSL into their 
products and sold the result for commercial profit without doing 
(in retrospect) enough due diligence.  Besides, having a third party 
to blame doesn't make our data safer...

At least one vendor, Akamai is helping out now: 
http://marc.info/?l=openssl-users&m=139723710923076&w=2
I hope other vendors will follow suit.

>this one is owned by the community. it falls on us to try to lower 
>the probability of a next one by actively auditing source as our 
>civic duty.

I donated some money to the OpenSSL project and hope others will do, 
or have already done, the same.  It's clear that they are internet 
infrastructure and need more support.

	-- Niels.