#1353: Heartbleed explain

Megan: Heartbleed must be the worst web security lapse ever.

Cueball: Worst so far. Give us time.

Megan: I mean, this bug isn’t just broken encryption.

Megan: It lets website visitors make a server dispense random memory contents.

Megan: It’s not just keys. It’s traffic data. Emails. Passwords. Erotic fanfiction.

Cueball: Is everything compromised?

Megan: Well, the attack is limited to data stored in computer memory.

Cueball: So paper is safe. And clay tablets.

Megan: Our imaginations, too.

Cueball: See, we’ll be fine.