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That sounds like bad advice.The huge impact of Heartbleed is precisely because of the monoculture in SSL/TLS implementations. Shit happens but this vulnerability is such a catastrophe because an estimated half a million of the top Internet websites have been vulnerable since 2012, including popular services that everybody is using and the vulnerability once discovered, is easy to use and far reaching, allowing one to steal sessions, passwords, the domain's private keys and anything important.
It really can't get any worse than this. At the very least we found out about it, better late than never and we can discuss the source-code, but it does make one wonder ... if SSL/TLS is such an important piece of infrastructure and if we need a monoculture (because apparently it's bad advice to reimplement crypto), why aren't we using a library that's the reference and that's peer reviewed by a standards committee, instead of relying on a library for which commits don't necessarily trigger sounds?
That's Linux for ya.
And I'm sure agencies did that intentionally.
I even find it hilarious that this commenter starts with "muh monoculture", as if it would have been better with 5 shit projects that implement it, all with their own security issues, at the same time tons of these goof balls start with "muh don't reinvent the wheel muh", but thinks it's a smart idea to write 5 TLS/SSL libraries. It's really ridiculous.
Same with GUIs. How about creating one that works properly for a change. User likes when stuff works. User doesn't like it when stuff doesn't work. It's easy, really.
Of course you could even turn this into "muh monoculture of Linux basically running the internets", but that will make these goof balls sperg out.
and then there is this:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/diversity-inclusivity/
or this
https://fossbytes.com/linus-torvalds-approved-new-inclusive-terminology-linux-kernel/
>muh don't call it master and slave, that's racist or something
>muh don't call it male and female, that's sexist, there are also males with a vagene and females with a benis
No, these clowns can fuck right off too.