tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post1415107618203933012..comments2024-02-08T07:32:20.315-06:00Comments on Steve Bates - Yellow Doggerel Democratic Views: NSA Has Known About, Used Heartbleed Bug For YearsSteve Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-79906010484993655692014-04-12T11:16:28.600-05:002014-04-12T11:16:28.600-05:00'Tux, I am old enough to remember when a bug w...'Tux, I am old enough to remember when a <b>bug</b> was an <b>unintentional</b> flaw in the code. I am not quite old enough to have watched Amazing Grace's group scotch-tape the original bug (which was in fact a bug, which had crawled into a relay and fouled it) into the log book... but I'm almost that old. And I never thought I'd live to see the day when an American intelligence agency would premeditatedly foul the works of hardware and/or software on which both the American military and the American business community utterly depend. There's something not quite right... I don't mean morally, but <b>practically</b>... in the American government willfully, knowingly fucking over the American computing community.Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872647804241988041.post-11296913068398172772014-04-11T23:07:37.717-05:002014-04-11T23:07:37.717-05:00This is one of those things where, when we saw thi...This is one of those things where, when we saw this headline at work today, everybody looked at it and said "How surprising." (As in, not).<br /><br />So now it's fixed. But never fear, I'm sure they introduced a *new* "bug" into OpenSSL while fixing the "old" bug. Sigh.BadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.com