Ed Felten provides good advice on this blog about what to do in the wake of Heartbleed, and I’ve read some good technical discussions of the technical problem (see this for a particularly understandable explanation).
Update Apr 11: To understand what Heartbleed is all about, see XKCD. Best. Explanation. Ever.
In this brief posting, I want to look at a different angle – what’s the scope of the vulnerability? [Read more…]