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Warum noch mal war unsere kritische Infrastruktur im Netz, wie #letsencrypt oder #OpenVPN, von der US-Regierung abhängig?

Irgendwann braucht man nach #Heartbleed und #GnuPG-Krise auch nicht mehr Snowden zitieren, wenn die einzige Konsequenz, die man da nicht gezogen hat, die ist, dass Open Source-Entwicklung auch Geld kostet.

Und dass man das am besten auch nicht allein einer alle vier Jahre wechselnden Regierung überlässt.

New from me SC UK:

This month marks 10 years since #Heartbleed was disclosed, and #cybersecurity had to react fast. I talked to CISO Neil Thacker and Synopsys - who acquired Codenomicon (who discovered the OpenSSL bug) - about lessons learned over the past decade about open source code bases, patching and vulnerabilities.

insight.scmagazineuk.com/ten-y

SC Media UKTen Years of Heartbleed: Lessons Learned
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Este parasitismo provoca precariedad, agotamiento y hartazgo en desarrolladores y lleva a problemas de seguridad global como #Heartbleed

Por eso nuestras autoridades se plantean obligar a las BigTech a contribuir… ¡NO! Se plantean obligar a voluntarios a darles mantenimiento 🤯

Thinking a lot about the #xz backdoor this week. Almost exactly 10 years ago, I wrote this about the #Heartbleed attack and how we should do more to support #OSS, especially for important libraries. Sadly, almost all of what I wrote then is still relevant. web.archive.org/web/2014042013

MashableHeartbleed Exposes a Problem With Open Source, But It's Not What You ThinkWe shouldn't blame open source for Heartbleed, but that doesn't mean the model doesn't have problems.

The important role #OpenSSL plays in securing the Internet has never been matched by the financial resources devoted to maintaining it.
The open source #cryptographic #software library secures hundreds of thousands of Web servers and many products sold by multi-billion-dollar companies,
but it operates on a shoestring budget.
OpenSSL Software Foundation President Steve Marquess wrote in a blog post last week that OpenSSL typically receives about $2,000 in donations a year
and has just one employee who works full time on the open source code.

Given that, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by the existence of #Heartbleed, a security flaw in OpenSSL that can expose user passwords and the private encryption keys needed to protect websites.

OpenSSL’s bare-bones operations are in stark contrast to some other open source projects that receive sponsorship from corporations relying on their code.
Chief among them is probably the #Linux operating system #kernel, which has a foundation with multiple employees and funding from HP, IBM, Red Hat, Intel, Oracle, Google, Cisco, and many other companies.
Workers at some of these firms spend large amounts of their employers’ time writing code for the Linux kernel, benefiting everyone who uses it.
That’s never been the case with OpenSSL, but the Linux Foundation wants to change that.
⭐️The foundation today is announcing a three-year initiative with at least $3.9 million to help under-funded open source projects⭐
—with OpenSSL coming first.
Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Qualcomm, Rackspace, and VMware have all pledged to commit 💥at least $100,000 a year for at least three years💥 to the “#Core #Infrastructure #Initiative,” Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin told Ars.
To be clear, the money will go to multiple open source projects
—OpenSSL will get a portion of the funding but likely nowhere close to the entire $3.9 million.
The initiative will identify important open source projects that need help in addition to OpenSSL.

arstechnica.com/information-te

Ars Technica · Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSLIBM, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others pledge millions to open source.
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@Bibobu

Le pire, c'est que le débat autour des petits projets extrêmement utilisés et pourtant complètement sous-financés avait déjà eu lieu plusieurs fois ces dernières années, à la suite de failles mémorables telles que #Heartbleed.

Sauf que ça s'agite un peu sur le moment, ça créé divers fonds pour financer le libre, mais une fois la tempête passée, on en entend plus parler et rien ne change ☹️

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Next · Cybersécurité et open source : l’électrochoc Heartbleed « n’a pas changé grand chose » - NextPendant le salon B.Boost de La Rochelle – consacré aux logiciels libres et à l’open source –, plusieurs conférences parlaient de cybersécurité. Plus de sept ans après le douloureux épisode Heartbleed d’OpenSSL, nous avons cherché à savoir si les mentalités avaient changé.