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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNSA knew for at least 2 years about Heartbleed bug, regularly used it to gather intelligence
It flies in the face of the agencys comments that defense comes first, said Jason Healey, director of the cyber statecraft initiative at the Atlantic Council and a former Air Force cyber officer. They are going to be completely shredded by the computer security community for this.
anyone surprised??
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)I believed it at first, but now I am skeptical
http://time.com/60082/nsa-heartbleed-bug-denial/
BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)How the NSA lied about the scope of the surveillance when the Snowden information was just coming out? I would be extremely skeptical of any official statements from the NSA.
idendoit
(505 posts)Bloomberg says: "two people familiar with the matter said". So what?
PosterChild
(1,307 posts)... in fact, since the code is open source and publicly available, it should be easy enough to locate exactly who it was who introduced the bug and talk to them about it. Did they even try?
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)many open source applications. The NSA is probably the leading supplier of encryption modules in the world. They're in almost everything.
Do they put back doors in those modules? I imagine they do, and always have thought so.
I'm not surprised, and neither should be anyone else.
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http://www.nsa.gov/ia/programs/suiteb_cryptography/