[kwlug-disc] Another SSL "threat" in the news

[Chris Irwin]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:25 AM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not the most serious threat, but still...
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> http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/poodle-ssl-3-0-bug-is-the-newest-threat-to-web-security-1.2799078?cmp=rss
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"In what they have dubbed a "Poodle" attack."

This is what happens when we try to give security issues catchy names for
the media and regular users to catch on. We start running out of cool names.


-- 
Chris Irwin
<chris at chrisirwin.ca>
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