film_girl,
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Thinking a lot about the backdoor this week. Almost exactly 10 years ago, I wrote this about the attack and how we should do more to support , especially for important libraries. Sadly, almost all of what I wrote then is still relevant. https://web.archive.org/web/20140420132336/https://mashable.com/2014/04/14/heartbleed-open-source/

theotherlinh,

@film_girl I feel like I'm taking the wrong take from this but... heartbleed was a decade ago!?!? wth happened to time :(

film_girl,
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@theotherlinh I know!!

chockenberry,
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@film_girl Business is rarely proactive, instead it reacts.

There will be another back door that succeeds and inflicts a lot of financial damage that insurance policies don’t cover.

Things will change when poorly funded open software affects the bottom line.

gruber,
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@chockenberry @film_girl I’d say the question is whether anyone has already pulled off a similar attack.

chockenberry,
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@gruber @film_girl A smart attacker would still be pulling it off - imagine being able to take $0.01 of every $1 that passes through Apple.

Couch change for a huge company, and even if the back door was discovered, few would want the public attention.

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