What and When Did NSA Know About Heartbleed Bug?

April 16, 2014 April 16, 2014

Kellep Charles

An interesting article by D. Price at cloudtweaks.com:

Did The NSA Know About Heartbleed?As the world comes to terms with the full seriousness of the Heartbleed bug, questions are starting to be asked about the role that the National Security Agency (NSA) may have played in the security flaw. On the morning of Friday 11^th April rumours started to circulate on social media sites such as Twitter and Reddit, and it wasn’t long before they were picked up by the mainstream press.

Bloomberg published an article claiming that two people close to the NSA had informed them that the infamous government agency had known about Heartbleed for as long as two years – using it to gather critical intelligence, obtain passwords, and grab other basic data that ultimately became the foundation for its recent-unveiled hacking operations.

Knowledge of the Heartbleed flaw supposedly allowed the agency to bypass strong encryption systems – the same systems that had been hailed by Edward Snowden as “one of the few things that you can rely on” in a Q&A session with British newspaper The Guardian in June 2013.

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