When word of the Heartbleed bug first came out, news spread like a fire alarm — but it didn’t spread evenly. The vulnerability was spread across as many as two out of every three servers, which made a standard disclosure impossible. Companies like Google and Facebook got the news early, and were already patched when Monday’s news broke, while others, like Amazon and Yahoo, were left scrambling to protect themselves. But why did some companies have advanced warning while others got left in the cold? How did Facebook find out while Yahoo was left out of the loop?
"Antitrust laws do not stand in the way."
From a certain angle, it seems like picking favorites — so much so that the FTC issued a statement this morning "making it...
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