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Heartbleed bug denial by NSA and White House
Source: BBC
12 April 2014 Last updated at 17:51 GMT
Heartbleed bug denial by NSA and White House
The US National Security Agency has denied it knew about or exploited the Heartbleed online security flaw.
The denial came after a Bloomberg News report alleging the NSA used the flaw in OpenSSL to harvest data.
OpenSSL is online-data scrambling software used to protect data such as passwords sent online.
Last year, NSA leaker Edward Snowden claimed the organisation deliberately introduced vulnerabilities to security software.
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Heartbleed bug denial by NSA and White House
The US National Security Agency has denied it knew about or exploited the Heartbleed online security flaw.
The denial came after a Bloomberg News report alleging the NSA used the flaw in OpenSSL to harvest data.
OpenSSL is online-data scrambling software used to protect data such as passwords sent online.
Last year, NSA leaker Edward Snowden claimed the organisation deliberately introduced vulnerabilities to security software.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27004713
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Heartbleed bug denial by NSA and White House (Original Post)
Eugene
Apr 2014
OP
The NSA has been sucking down every keystroke, every click that everybody has made and
unhappycamper
Apr 2014
#4
840high
(17,196 posts)1. Yeah - right.
hlthe2b
(102,291 posts)2. I have a feeling this is one of those convuluted semantic non-denial/denials...
I'd like to be wrong...
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)3. It's entirely possible that they may be telling the truth.
However their past record of minimizing, ignoring, condoning or flat-out lying about previous abuses destroys their credibility.
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)4. The NSA has been sucking down every keystroke, every click that everybody has made and
saving it for over ten years. This particular bug was introduced into SSL communications in 2011.
If these hotshots can't find bugs, understand them AND GET THE FUCKING PROBLEM FIXED, why are they there? I was under the impression that they made us 'safe'. Allowing a bug that captures personal information doesn't made me feel very safe.
GET THE FUCKING PROBLEM FIXED = communicate the problem to the folks who caused it and have them fix it.