They can't fit a giant heatsink on the card because there are two dies in close proximity. What they can do is fit a small copper block and run fluid through it since fluid can carry more heat than air.

Honestly, while I somewhat agree with what you're saying it really doesn't apply here. There is simply not enough room for two giant HSFs on the card.

Not gonna post any "rah rah Linux is better" nonsense. I just prefer to use Linux distros and none of my computers run Windows.

So the XP EOL doesn't affect me in the slightest.

I'm replying here because I'm smarter than you are. The question is a matter of surface area. When you combine a small die with limited area to an external HSF the external device will have more surface area. So yes, you still dissipate to air but you can do so to more air via an external device.

How is this any different than renting a car and then renting it out to someone else?

No offense, but older programs were only "secure" because 1) They were less connected and less capable (less vectors of attack) 2) They didn't know about the attacks we know about today. For instance, Windows 3.1 (iirc) had a BMP parser bug that would allow you to buffer overflow the process and run arbitrary code. Nobody in the 80s/90s would have thought of someone sending you a virus in a BMP image ...

The bigger problem with OpenSSL is their complete lack of proper comments, code documentation, and style standards. Basically I wouldn't be so quick to blame the tool if you had seen the code in the first place.