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You know the problem with the reports that the National Security Agency has known about and been using the Heartbleed Open SSL vulnerability for a couple of years?

They are so believable. And you know the problem with

NSA denials of those stories? There seems to be every reason to not trust

them. And no amount of saying don't worry is likely to make people prone to worrying about such things.

Stop what they're worrying.

Bloomberg ran a piece over the weekend that began with the paragraph.

The US National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the heart bleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence to people familiar with the matter said.

According to Bloomberg, the NSA used Heartbleed to obtain passwords and other basic data that

are the building blocks of the sophisticated hacking operations at the core of its mission.

If it's true though, it created a problem, or another problem depending on how one views that first bit. Not only was Uncle Sam able to read

over people's shoulders, poked through their drawers, and anything else one might do when no one knows that

they're looking, but hackers could do it too if the Bloomberg piece is true

quoting that millions of ordinary users were left vulnerable to attack from other

nation's intelligence arms and criminal hackers.

Again, according to Bloomberg.

You know, the world used to call such stories paranoid.

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