It wasn't an outcry, it was a bug. Heartbleed happened in OpenSSL, people then realized that the project was massively important so pledged funding. https://ar

It wasn't an outcry, it was a bug. Heartbleed happened in OpenSSL, people then realized that the project was massively important so pledged funding. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-giants-chastened-by-heartbleed-finally-agree-to-fund-openssl/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-...