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The Heartbleed Bug Heartbleed Bug The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs).
Am I affected by the bug?
You are likely to be affected either directly or indirectly. OpenSSL is the most popular open source cryptographic library and TLS (transport layer security) implementation used to encrypt traffic on the Internet. Your popular social site, your company's site, commerce site, hobby site, site you install software from or even sites run by your government might be using vulnerable OpenSSL. Many of online services use TLS to both to identify themselves to you and to protect your privacy and transactions. You might have networked appliances with logins secured by this buggy implementation of the TLS. Furthermore you might have client side software on your computer that could expose the data from your computer if you connect to compromised services.
To: Berlin_Freeper
The Chrome store has an extension (chromebleed) which can tell if a site is vulnerable, and there are lists now.
4 posted on
04/10/2014 3:03:40 PM PDT by
ansel12
((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
To: Berlin_Freeper
5 posted on
04/10/2014 3:03:53 PM PDT by
babygene
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6 posted on
04/10/2014 3:09:41 PM PDT by
The Cajun
(tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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8 posted on
04/10/2014 3:16:01 PM PDT by
Carriage Hill
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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I do hope our host will add to this thread. Not a good
thing to hear with an onging freepathon fundraiser in progress.
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10 posted on
04/11/2014 5:20:26 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Berlin_Freeper
To: Berlin_Freeper
Oh, great. Facebook is vulnerable.
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