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It's been a while now but at one point, just about every giant tech company simply make install'ed a key-material-leaking TLS bug on just about every endpoint they ran. The bug was introduced by, effectively, some guy on the internet. It implemented a feature statistically nobody was going to use.

It's trivial to re-frame all sorts of mishaps as evidence of unseriousness about security, especially if done selectively and in hindsight. It doesn't really tell you much of anything meaningful.



I remember that incident.

I think there's a difference between compiling and installing a buggy software and developing the whole infrastructure yourself on top of the operating system that you solely develop and build.

But that's me.




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