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

TGLASSEY tglassey at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 14 16:26:19 UTC 2014


Yes Matthew it should. The question is whether they do or not.

Todd

On 4/14/2014 7:38 AM, Matthew Black wrote:
> Shouldn't a decent OS scrub RAM and disk sectors before allocating them to processes, unless that process enters processor privileged mode and sets a call flag? I recall digging through disk sectors on RSTS/E to look for passwords and other interesting stuff over 30 years ago.
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> matthew black
> california state university, long beach
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy at psg.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 7:31 AM
> To: Bengt Larsson
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]
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>> It's quite plausible that they watch the changes in open-source
>> projects to find bugs. They could do nice diffs and everything.
> the point of open source is that the community is supposed to be doing this.  we failed.
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> randy
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