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I forget if heartbleed was the first one to a have a homepage or the first one to have a catchy name, but it was to help with the public relations angle of conv
by tareqak 7y ago
I forget if heartbleed was the first one to a have a homepage or the first one to have a catchy name, but it was to help with the public relations angle of convincing CIOs or their equivalents in an organization to take the problem seriously AFAIK. Someone else here can probably answer it better.
- 2bitencryption 7y agoOn this subject, I'd love to see a full history of the "branded vulnerability" thing.
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- tareqak 7y agoHere is a link up thread with 'patio11's take on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158079 .
- __jal 7y agoThere were nicely branded jailbreaks for the iPhone well before Heartbleed.