Clearly $billion corporations like RedHat are going to spend more time auditing code commits, with or without lawsuits. Google found this bug and I wonder what kind of fork / NSS migration / whatever solution will emerge. NSS is from Mozilla, and Google revenue funds Mozilla.

Maybe it will go as far as "OpenSSL considered harmful" and anything linked to it will be flagged. That would be too sensible.

NSS? I'm no expert, but wonder why it's not used more. Force of habit? License differences? http://www.gossamer-threads.co...

Here's a sad post from one year ago:

Is it possible to ensure by a configuration parameter, that curl uses OpenSSL, and not NSS to retrieve https content? I need to ensure this, in order to enforce compliance with FIPS140-2, which RHEL6.2 has certified?

http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

By the way I know NSS does a lot of FIPS compliance, but part of the Heartbleed problem for the "normal" user is that it is hard to tell what openssl is linked into. We had it in our web server daemon even though shell "openssl version" showed a good version.

This guy has retracted part of his analysis based on comments, but tries to make a case that passwords and cookies in the http headers are more likely to be exposed than keys. Remember, http-auth is still used a lot. http://blog.erratasec.com/2014...

You were better off using non-SSL, unless you were on wireless or something easily snooped. I'm not aware http:80 servers have a little query that gets you memory dumps. Do I misunderstand?

And if you haven't seen ASCII-art porn images come clacking out of a teletype with a phone-cradle modem to a time-sharing computer, then you weren't there (thankfully perhaps). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

Briefly I had to deal with compiled programs on decks of IBM cards. BASIC was much nicer for a student doing small programs because it was interpreted and you could fix it as you went along (in memory). Those card decks looked cool on Hawaii Five-0, but one syntax mistake in a cobol or fortran program and you had to wait another two hours to get your homework done.

Line numbers were great. You could add line 15 at any time!

But M$ gave us BAT files, which are terrible.

From TFA:

It's not the first time Kristoffer has flashed his tech skills.
“He’s figured out vulnerabilities 3 or 4 times,” said Davies.
At age 1, Kristoffer got past the toddler lock screen on a cell phone by holding down the home key.

Amazon's primary interest in this device *seems* to be to drive sales on Amazon Instant, not to serve as a general purpose streamer like Roku (though it does that too). There's some confusion in the business press about what Amazon is up to, but this is a likely guess. It doesn't want to be reliant on Roku, ChromeCast, Sony, etc., and would like to have a sticky ecosystem like Apple.

The other theory is that Amazon believes users will prefer it as a premium branded product, again like Apple. The product does not need to compete with Roku on price, in that case, but does need to compete on features.

I think most of the work is done by Mozilla's own paid engineers, except on community projects like Seamonkey and, now, Thunderbird. I could be wrong.

If you're going to buy cheapo electronic parts, you should buy a decent multimeter for testing.

These are photographs, not telescopic images of the universe. How many megapixels does a camera phone need? Are people going to be sending me the full pictures and then I have to spend time reducing them to a reasonable size?

Where is this magical place you think the Social Security Administration should have been saving your contributions? In the stock market? Cubes of cash? Mutual funds? Maybe something safer? Treasury bonds? Well, that's what they did.

And any email system is a PITA to run. And if your spam filtering is not as good as Gmail's, you will hear about it. I'm surprised web host ISP's have not outsourced this stuff off their servers - except the 3rd party email companies cost as much as web hosting itself. That tells you it is expensive to run an email service.

Product page says "BoomerangIt Packs and Subscriptions are no longer available for purchase." I can't find anything written about it in the last seven years, except this: http://boomerangit.wordpress.c...

Even its offshoot the National Bike Registry seems a it moribund.