Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
I saw a t-shirt one time. “I’m a bomb disposal technician,” it read. “If you see me running, try to keep up.”
The same sort of idea can be applied to net security: when all the net security people you know are freaking out, it’s probably an okay time to worry.
This afternoon, many of the net security people I know are freaking out. A very serious bug in OpenSSL — a cryptographic library that is used to secure a very, very large percentage of the Internet’s traffic — has just been discovered and publicly disclosed.
