to be fair to Bruce, here is his entire post on the subject https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Paul Vixie <p...@redbarn.org> wrote: > > > Paul Vixie wrote: > > Michal Zalewski wrote: > >>> > http://m.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/man-who-introduced-serious-heartbleed-security-flaw-denies-he-inserted-it-deliberately-20140410-zqta1.html > >>> > > > > when the internet moved out of academia and into the larger population, > > we got tabloids and ambulance chasers in the deal. ick. > > speaking of ambulance chasers, in the above-referenced article, THIS > little gem: > > "On a scale of one to 10, it is an 11," renowned security expert Bruce > Schneier said of the bug. > > really bruce? on a scale of doesn't-matter-at-all to > worst-thing-you-could-have-previously-imagined, a read only exploit is > even worse than that? no remote file modification, no root shell, no > non-root shell, no data-modification, no arbitrary file system reads... > just a read only heap exploit, and it's worse than anything you could > have previously fucking imagined? > > gentlemen and ladies, we have met the enemy, and they are our egos. > > vixie > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list > http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure > Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/ > _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
