Google, MS, and Facebook launchproject to stop the next Heartbleed

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The sudden chaos of the Heartbleed bug drove home just how much of the web relies on OpenSSL software, and just how little was being spent to maintain it. But in the aftermath, some of the biggest players in tech are coming together to change that, and hopefully spot the next Heartbleed before it can wreak quite as much havoc.

 

The new project is called the Core Infrastructure Initiative, formed by the Linux Foundation and devoted to plowing money into the critical software infrastructure that needs it. Executive director Jim Zemlin says that after Heartbleed, it was clear something needed to change. "After we're done updating our software and swapping our certificates, what can we learn? What can be done differently," he says. "Obviously, in retrospect, I wish we had done this a long time ago."

 

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