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Re:"OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make s... by xuu on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @09:57AM (#7559269)
Many eyes worked in this case.. It just took a long time to find. The question now is what will it find next and when?
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Re:"OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make s... by mannykannot on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @08:35PM (#7563506)
It worked in the sense that the lifeboats on the Titanic worked - they did, after all, save hundreds of lives.

The combination of time and severity in this case should mean that we can move on from naive 'all bugs are shallow' dogma towards developing a more evidence-based approach to the verification of critical software.

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Re:"OpenSSL has exploit mitigation countermeasures to make s... by lttlrck on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @12:12PM (#7560226)
even with a comment in the code...
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