Some of y'all girls dont get it. Even i don't get it. Basically some of my online accounts pursued me to change passwords because of this Heartbleed bug which can be used by hackers to steal sensitive info from the server.. So just a comic strip to illustrate it all
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First the girl asks the server to indicate whether it’s still online by telling it to say “Potato,” and indicates the length of the word. The server responds with “Potato,” while withholding all of the information surrounding “Potato,” written out in a lighter hue in the server’s speech bubbles. The hacker then asks the server to repeat the same task, but instead replaces “Potato” with “Bird,” and indicates the length of the word. The server complies.
Then, the hacker asks the server to say “Hat,” but instead of noting that it’s a three-character word, she states that it’s 500 letters long. The server responds not only by saying “Hat,” but also by leaking out the information around the word. By doing so, it reveals sensitive server information, including a “master key,” which the hacker begins to jot down.
This is a basic explanation of how the Heartbleed bug works. The Heartbleed bug is a flaw in the OpenSSL method of data encryption used by many of the world’s websites, which was actually put into the code accidentally by a programmer roughly two years ago.
This is how my dad explained the bug to me haha. Whoever came up with it is a genius, I changed all my passwords this morning and encourage anyone who values their online accounts to do the same!
