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How To Prevent the Next Heartbleed

Posted by timothy on from the leave-your-comment-in-the-form-of-an-exploit dept.

dwheeler (321049) writes "Heartbleed was bad vulnerability in OpenSSL. My article How to Prevent the next Heartbleed explains why so many tools missed it... and what could be done to prevent the next one. Are there other ways to detect these vulnerabilities ahead-of-time? What did I miss?"

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  1. Re:In the US: force the NSA to disclose them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Exactly. The Republicans that create these bugs will never allow them to be disclosed by the government. There's a reason Republicans still push so hard for C and only C to be used for projects.

  2. Re:How about by Kazoo+the+Clown · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, I think it's clear the next gen of CPUs really needs to have the machine language removed entirely. What a security hole!