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Take a look at the top-voted answers to "How to explain Heartbleed without technical terms?" on security.SE and repeat that: http://security.stackexchange.com/
by brazzy 13y ago
Take a look at the top-voted answers to "How to explain Heartbleed without technical terms?" on security.SE and repeat that:
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55343/how-to-explain-heartbleed-without-technical-terms http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55343/how-to-exp...
- nollidge 13y agoThe two top-voted answer includes WAAAAAY more information than the XKCD comic, so they're not really comparable. The third one explains it pretty simply.
- brazzy 13y agoThat's exactly the point: some experts, when asked for a simple explanation, produce a huge info-dump in simplified terminology, and most experts thought that an appropriate response (see upvotes) - failing to realize that the result is anything but simple. It takes a special skill to eliminate all the non-essential information and produce something truly simple to understand, like the comic.