Heartbleed Exposes a Problem With Open Source, But It's **t What You Think

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Heartbleed Exposes a Problem With Open Source, But It's **t What You Think
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A week after the Heartbleed (http://mashable.com/category/heartbleed/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) OpenSSL vulnerability wreaked havoc across the web, the conversation is shifting from reaction to reflection. The discussion is ** longer about what to do **w, but what can be done to prevent a**ther Heartbleed from happening in the future. In other words, we're entering the blame game chapter in this saga.

So who is to blame for Heartbleed?

See also: The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right **w (http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-bug-websites-affected/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


If OpenSSL, the software package at the root of the vulnerability, were a piece of commercial software, we could blame the company behind the app. In fact, when Apple released an emergency ***** for its own SSL/TLS bug (http://mashable.com/2014/02/25/apple-os-x-10-9-2/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) back in February, the company was scrutinized by security experts, programmers and pundits a like Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/14/heartbleed-open-source/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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