Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/April 1

all IT infrastructure vs. one thanklessly maintained hobbyist project

Today in 2014 the Heartbleed bug was discovered. For many this called into question the belief in the principle of many eyeballs (aka. “Linus’ law”). OpenSSL, which is used to secure large parts of the Internet, was taken for granted and saw little investment until this vulnerability had compromised 20% of web servers.