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SSL / secure passwords 5-Mar-2014 At 10:56:03 AM martym

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On 5/03/2014 kieranl wrote:
>On 5/03/2014 martym wrote:
>>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-a
>
>>
>>>-
>>>>pen-to-eavesdropping/
>>>>
>>>>Looking at the code affected, it's remarkably similar to the Apple
>bug:
>>>>https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/commit/6aa26f78150ccbdf0aec1878a41c17c41d358a3
>
>>>>>
>>>>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?
>I was a climber long before I encountered my first punched card :)

Are you perhaps suggesting the relationship is reversed: those who enjoy solving problems in high risk, dramatic natural environments are prone to find beauty in numbers and computer languages?