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Heartbleed. Is the Internet secure?

Hello again, I'm Oran Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. Every Internet user has now been warned, change all your passwords. Two-thirds of all websites could be vulnerable to a security flaw called Heartbleed. Then again, they might not. Few examples of hackers exploiting Heartbleed have been reported so far. But its discovery has revealed how much online security depends on free software maintained

by a few volunteers. There are predictions of global disaster. Can governments create rules of order

or should openness be the rule? Meantime, what's an internet user to do? Today's talking

point, Muslim profiling, discontinued by the NYPD. First, here's the news.

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International Program Fund. Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point.

The so-called heartbleed security flaw has revealed every user's worst nightmare about security on the Internet.

If we're already vulnerable now, what's going to happen when electrical grids and driverless cars are operated online?

Should somebody take charge? Or is it better when nobody can? Today's talking point

in the years since 9-11, the New York Police Department has spied on Muslims where they live,

eat, prey, and even what they say to each other. We'll find out why that practice is being discontinued.

First is news update. Since Russia first moved to seize Crimea from its neighbor Ukraine,

NATO has warned about threats to peace.

Today, Secretary General Anders Faux Rasmussen announced that military patrols will be stepped

up on the eastern borders of NATO countries.

Our decisions today are about defense, deterrence, and de-escalation. They are entirely in line with our

international commitments. Rasmussen told reporters we are not discussing military options. Luke

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