When news first broke of the devastating Heartbleed bug in the OpenSSL encryption standard, speculation immediately arose that governments had known about the flaw and taken advantage of it for their own surveillance efforts. A new report from Bloomberg claims that the US National Security Agency has been exploiting Heartbleed for at least two years. An NSA spokesperson declined to comment to Bloomberg on the allegations. While the report lacks any hard evidence that the NSA did indeed know about the issue, OpenSSL would have been one of the agency’s primary targets because of its broad reach and the sensitive...
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