David A. Wheeler: Working to Prevent the Next Heartbleed | Linux Today

David A. Wheeler: Working to Prevent the Next Heartbleed

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Robin "Roblimo" Miller
Jul 15, 2016

The Heartbleed bug revealed that some important open source projects were so understaffed that they were unable to properly implement best security practices. The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative , formed to help open source projects have the ability to adopt these practices, uses a lot of carrot and very little stick.

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Robin "Roblimo" Miller

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