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How does it happen that after being in the wild for two years the bug was independently found by two different security researchers at roughly the same time? I'

by marcins 13y ago

How does it happen that after being in the wild for two years the bug was independently found by two different security researchers at roughly the same time? I'm not trying to suggest a conspiracy or anything, just genuinely curious how that works!

tptacek 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7589498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7589498
- marcins 13y ago
  How does it happen that two people ask the same question in a comment at roughly the same time... ;-)
  - tptacek 13y ago
    Something something NSA TAO something.
jrockway 13y ago
Perhaps they read the same article or attended the same talk, and something in the article or talk triggered a similar thought process.
- supersystem 13y ago
  The Apple "goto fail", which affected TLS, and the GnuTLS bugs were widely published just a couple of weeks earlier.