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Actually, this tool brings up the question: did NSA discover and exploit Heartbleed years ago? That is not a conspiracy theory, btw. A few weeks back, H.D. Mo
by bostik 10y ago
Actually, this tool brings up the question: did NSA discover and exploit Heartbleed years ago?
That is not a conspiracy theory, btw.
A few weeks back, H.D. Moore of Rapid7/Metasploit fame was on the Risky Business podcast. The topic of the week was bug bounty programs, and in particular the larger programs that aggregate individual vendors under a common umbrella - and notably a common set of guidelines.
Moore mentioned that a recurring theme is that when researchers discover a new trick, they will the proceed to apply that trick to every possible vendor on the bounty program, netting 2-3k from each one they pop. In the same vein, I would find it odd if this extraction technique was not applied to every possible encryption target the NSA could think of.
- larrik 10y agoI would imagine that the NSA did discover and exploit Heartbleed years ago, yes. I've generally assumed that sort of thing was very likely, at least.