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OpenSSL Heartbleed: Bloody nose for open-source bleeding hearts

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Re: This explains it

Didn't you notice that the tiny URL was longer than the original?

I mean, what kind of idiot posts a string longer than the original and full of random characters?

Oh, wait..........

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Web data BLEEDOUT: Users to feel the pain as Heartbleed bug revealed

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Re: remote management?

I suspect that remote management may include your ISP updating firmware on your router.

May also include remote management to fix finger trouble by unskilled users.

When routers are provided as part of a turnkey solution then remote support capability is more or less a given.

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Ex-NSA guru builds $4m encrypted email biz - but its nemesis right now is control-C, control-V

littlegreycat

Show me the money?

Firstly I will fess up to being deeply embroiled in secure email and PKI in the late '90s

At the time it was already straightforward to secure email with mail clients.

All you needed was a plug in and a certificate.

Shortly afterwards signing and encryption were built in to Microsoft email clients.

Still there today.Nobody I know uses them.

At the time a certificate cost 10UKP a year and nobody was worried enough to pay that each year to secure email.

Nobody seems to want to pay for anything. (Freetards?)

Anyway, two things to consider.

(1) How much is this service going to cost a year and what happens to your encrypted emails if you fail to renew?

(2) Do you really want an email service which requies you to be online at all times so you can read saved emails? [I am assuming this from the remote key server.]

Agree about the research - everyone is concerned or worried about everything from insecure emails to hungry kittens. I suspect more people would give cash to save kittens than secure emails.

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