11 Apr
2014
11 Apr
'14
8:49 p.m.
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 07:56:01 +1000, Matt Palmer said:
The interesting thing to me is that the article claims the NSA have been using this for "over two years", but 1.0.1 (the first vulnerable version) was only released on 14 Mar 2012. That means that either:
* The NSA found it *amazingly* quickly (they're very good at what they do, but I don't believe them have superhuman talents); or
You seriously think the NSA *isn't* watching the commits to security-relevant open source? Remember - it was a bonehead bug, it's *not* unreasonable for somebody who was auditing the code to spot it. Heck, there's a good chance that automated tools could have spotted it.