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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, which had the same ultimate root cause as recent XZUtils backdoor incident (dev.to)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the same solution: ensure baseline funding for proper open source maintenance.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hear me out. What if instead we just included a respected developers open-source project into our multi billion dollar product, paid them nothing, and gave them the pressure of ensuring it's working for millions of users at the threat of their reputation until their mental health is in shambles? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I wouldn’t say quite the same root cause — the xz back door was clearly intentional, but I don’t recall the Heartbleed bug having been intentional, and developer responsible has denied allegations to that effect. There can be no doubt in the xz case of malicious intent.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck me, ten years already?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Thinking the same thing. WTF