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Re:Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when by marcins on Monday April 14, 2014 @07:19PM (#7589467)
How does it happen that after being in the wild for two years the bug was independently found by two different security researchers at roughly the same time? I'm not trying to suggest a conspiracy or anything, just genuinely curious how that works!
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Re:Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when by jrockway on Monday April 14, 2014 @07:32PM (#7589515)
Perhaps they read the same article or attended the same talk, and something in the article or talk triggered a similar thought process.
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Re:Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when by supersystem on Monday April 14, 2014 @08:05PM (#7589626)
The Apple "goto fail", which affected TLS, and the GnuTLS bugs were widely published just a couple of weeks earlier.
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Re:Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when by tptacek on Monday April 14, 2014 @07:29PM (#7589509)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7589498
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Re:Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when by marcins on Monday April 14, 2014 @07:35PM (#7589521)
How does it happen that two people ask the same question in a comment at roughly the same time... ;-)
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Re:Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when by tptacek on Monday April 14, 2014 @07:43PM (#7589554)
Something something NSA TAO something.
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