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

Thu Apr 17 02:50:40 UTC 2014

On April 17, 2014 at 10:03 gdt at gdt.id.au (Glen Turner) wrote:
 > Jason Iannone wrote:
 > > I can't cite chapter and verse but I seem to remember this zeroing
 > > problem was solved decades ago by just introducing a bit which said
 > > this chunk of memory or disk is new (to this process) and not zeroed
 > > but if there's any attempt to actually access it then read it back as
 > > if it were filled with zeros, or alternatively zero it.

Actually those were my words trying to describe kernel management of
disk blocks, sparse files, etc, not user space.

  -b