Re:NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Yea...
by JasonFruit on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:08PM
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One of those goals benefits the people with power who are above the NSA. The other provides a benefit to the public at large that few will notice. Which goal do you think is likely to be top priority?
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Re:NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Yea...
by monocasa on Friday September 20, 2019 @06:15PM
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Well, in the case of heartbleed where first the NSA found it, and an independent researcher found it, and the DoD uses Linux and OpenSSL all over the place, you'd think that the information assurance side would be better represented. Who knows how many adversaries were using that as well before it was public (hence the whole point of responsible disclosure).
Edit: Like, stuff like cryptanalysis of SM4 is for sure on the table. I can even see their neat Diffie-Hellman hack that costs $100m per nonce. But a trivially remotely exploitable memory safety bug in software that runs large sections of the military? Like, come on.