OpenSSL.org hacked?

Re:OpenSSL.org hacked? by devdoomari on Saturday December 28, 2013 @10:06PM (#6978077)

but what if they set-up the server side so that the server returns different results depending on the browser/OS?

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Re:OpenSSL.org hacked? by dangrossman on Saturday December 28, 2013 @10:08PM (#6978086)

    $ curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36" www.openssl.org

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Re:OpenSSL.org hacked? by bengarvey on Saturday December 28, 2013 @11:11PM (#6978329)

But what if they return a joke, so funny, that it kills whoever reads it?

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Re:OpenSSL.org hacked? by dionyziz on Sunday December 29, 2013 @12:21AM (#6978518)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_from_laughter

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Re:OpenSSL.org hacked? by mrjaeger on Sunday December 29, 2013 @12:15AM (#6978509)

Then they should split on spaces and only read one word at a time

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Re:OpenSSL.org hacked? by HCIdivision17 on Sunday December 29, 2013 @11:29AM (#6980052)

This is a proven method, but care must be taken to make sure no individual gets more than on word to translate at a time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_funniest_joke_in_the_wor...

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Re:OpenSSL.org hacked? by rst on Saturday December 28, 2013 @10:36PM (#6978188)

They might be looking for client addresses of specific targets. Then again, if they were trying for a "bank shot" attack on some particular target, they almost certainly wouldn't be trashing the front page to let the world know that the whole site is compromised.

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