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I think you and a sibling comment might be too close to the problem. When heartbleed dropped my Twitter feed had a few crypto engineers saying "I mean, eventual
by Godel_unicode 5y ago
I think you and a sibling comment might be too close to the problem. When heartbleed dropped my Twitter feed had a few crypto engineers saying "I mean, eventually this was going to happen" and a ton of developers whose main language starts with a "p" going "how?? OpenSSL is core plumbing of the internet, it can't be this bad can it???".
Edit: to be clear, not maligning the "p" language developers, I was one myself. Simply saying there are a ton of technical people who are blissfully ignorant of the tiny pillars of clay that hold up the internet.
- bee_rider 5y agoTo be fair, it was unreasonable to expect Prolog coders to keep up with crypto advancements, I mean the language pre-dates SSL by decades.
- tannhaeuser 5y agoCare to expand on what Prolog coders have to do with OpenSSL? Not getting the context here.
- wolf550e 5y agoA joke about "developers whose main language starts with a "p"", meaning presumably perl, php and python. I guess in this context, ruby and JavaScript are also languages starting with "p".
- Godel_unicode 5y agoDon't worry, I told both of them what was going on ;)
- hn_go_brrrrr 5y agoYeah, those Perl hackers are really out of touch :-)
- seanhunter 5y agoPascal does predate the era of SSL by some margin to be fair.
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