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> Crafting a weapon that can be used by both you and your enemies would be pyrrhic. In the long run, yes. In the short run, only you know about it and can exp
by flatline 13y ago
> Crafting a weapon that can be used by both you and your enemies would be pyrrhic.
In the long run, yes. In the short run, only you know about it and can exploit it from day 0, others are presumably going to take some time to find it, and it may go unnoticed for years or never be found (I understand the error was only present in some versions of OpenSSL and both older and more recent versions were free from it). I'm inclined to think the author made a simple mistake but this does not seem like sufficient incentive against someone introducing such a vulnerability.