The crybabies who freak out about The Communist Manifesto appearing on university curriculum clearly never read it - chapter one is basically a long hymn to capitalism's flexibility and inventiveness, its ability to change form and adapt itself to everything the world throws at it and come out on top:
But as open source projects have learned the hard way, the fact that anyone can audit your widely used, high-stakes code doesn't mean that anyone will.
The #Heartbleed vulnerability in #OpenSSL was a wake-up call for the open source movement - a bug that endangered every secure webserver connection in the world, which had hidden in plain sight for years.
I was doing some research for an internal presentation and discovered that there is still over 200k Heartbleed vulnerable servers (according to Shodan). I am genuinely surprised. #heartbleed#patching#shodan