NSA denies report it used Heartbleed bug to capture information

[unhappycamper]

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_25547591/nsa-used-heartbleed-bug-capture-information-report-says

NSA denies report it used Heartbleed bug to capture information
By Brandon Bailey and Steve Johnson
Mercury News
Posted: 04/11/2014 01:35:21 PM PDT
Updated: 04/11/2014 06:32:29 PM PDT

The National Security Agency on Friday strongly denied a news report that said the government failed to warn the public about the notorious Heartbleed software flaw -- allegedly because the NSA wanted to continue using it to gather intelligence.

The story, by Bloomberg News, said the NSA left countless Internet users and businesses vulnerable to hackers for the past two years, in order to continue exploiting the Heartbleed bug as a powerful tool for obtaining passwords and other data from users' accounts.

Both the NSA and the White House used uncharacteristically direct language in statements late Friday that flatly denied the report.

But the report and denials served to underscore the growing skepticism and mistrust surrounding government spy programs that have been revealed by a wave of news leaks in recent months.


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The NSA is either lying or incompetent; take your pick.

How can our top electronic spy agency miss Heartbleed malware for two years?

[Pholus]

1. C'mon! General Clapper says it ain't so and he ain't NEVER lied to us.

And if he did, it was for our own good .

Sometimes you have to destroy the truth to preserve the truth.

[SaltyBro]

2. That's reassuring.

:rolleyes:

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Apparently NSA has no clue about lost credibility.n/t