Stories by robey
NSA backdoor discovered in the wild: The strange story of “Extended Random”
(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
Some printers have been found using NSA BSAFE, with the Dual EC DRBG backdoor, and an activated extension that caused the endpoint to generate even more "random" data, to help ease the exploit.
Surprised this wasn't posted yet: a very astute glimpse at the soullessness of peak-bubble life.
An oldie but goodie from 2009: Someone tries to use openssl to do basic things, and ends up an alcoholic.
This matches my experience back in 2000, which tells me that it's just a time capsule of bad code, and nobody's ever cared enough to try to clean it up.
As someone on Twitter pointed out, ...