18 Jun
2023
18 Jun
'23
3:24 p.m.
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 16:51 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Do you remember "Heartbleed"? We owe that to someone who has successfully completed his doctorate with this achievement. A PhD student who overestimates his skills can be worse than a traitor.
"Der Quellcode, der den Fehler aufweist, wurde am 31. Dezember 2011 von dem einzigen fest angestellten Mitarbeiter des OpenSSL-Teams aus dem Entwurfszweig in das OpenSSL-Git-Repository eingepflegt" - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed IOW he was payed for doing his "excellent" work. All those kids never programmed using plain Assembly, all of them are smartasses users of compiler languages, without any knowhow how the compiler does translate the code to Assembly.