Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation

Re:Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation by billpg on Friday April 11, 2014 @06:15AM (#7572064)

I showed this to my wife to see if the cartoon worked with an educated but not-technical person. She subconsciously glossed over the (n LETTERS) part of Meg's requests as just an annotation on the cartoonist's part, not realizing that it was actually part of the request.

Once I rephrased the final request as "Server, reply with the 500 letters of HAT", we finally had that light-bulb moment.

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Re:Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation by mitosis on Friday April 11, 2014 @07:28AM (#7572250)

Your wife seems to be affected by the recently discovered vulnerability. It would be advisable to upgrade her firmware to the latest version.

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Re:Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation by SimHacker on Saturday April 12, 2014 @01:49PM (#7578538)

And don't forget to immediately revoke your old marriage certificate, reissue a new one, and invalidate all your old keys and cookies, or else your relationship is vulnerable to a man in the middle attack, like Dr. Frank-N-Furter did to Brad and Janet! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m62xw7EWJDE

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Re:Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation by angelbar on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:36AM (#7572727)

HN, funny button?

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Re:Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation by nsxwolf on Friday April 11, 2014 @10:11AM (#7572916)

I had the same problem.

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Re:Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation by billpg on Friday April 11, 2014 @10:27AM (#7573009)

You were showing cartoons to my wife? Sir, I challenge you to fisticuffs at dawn!

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