[Cryptography] cryptography Digest, Vol 12, Issue 9

[tpb-crypto at laposte.net]

> Message du 12/04/14 22:01
> De : "ianG" 
> > Security flaws aren't the same as tsunamis. Reporting a power station's
> > possible vulnerability to the former doesn't make tsunamis more likely.
> > However, the wide dissemination of a previously unknown security
> > flaw *does* make its future attempted exploitation a near certainty.
> 
> 
> OK, so you raise a good point -- in the byzantine security world,
> knowledge of an exploit changes the equation, where as in the
> statistical reliability/safety world, knowledge of risks should not
> presumably change the likelihood of risks.
> 
> (leaving aside insurance, FUD and homeland security for now).
> 
> However I'd question your claim of near-certainty. Seriously, and
> non-facetiously. Near-certainty predicts that there were damages/losses
> for the other recent events:
> 

How about this event?

https://www.cloudflarechallenge.com/heartbleed

Private keys retrieved and messages signed. If that's not enough, do you need 40 million credit card numbers spilled to take action? lol