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SSL / secure passwords 5-Mar-2014 At 10:32:10 AM martym

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On 5/03/2014 kieranl wrote:
>On 5/03/2014 ajfclark wrote:
>>And now to be fair I get to hang shit on Linux and everyone using gnutls:
>>http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/critical-crypto-bug-leaves-linux-hundreds-of-app
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>>pen-to-eavesdropping/
>>
>>Looking at the code affected, it's remarkably similar to the Apple bug:
>>https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/6aa26f78150ccbdf0aec1878a41c17c41d358a3b
>>
>>Starts to make you wonder if it's all an accident.
>Starts to make you wonder how much plagiarising of code goes on out there.
>Was really funny looking at those goto statements in the C code - just
>like we used to do in COBOL.

Starts to make you wonder how many climbers are also IT nerds who needed an outlet?