The Internet’s Telltale Heartbleed

It’s easy to take open-source software for granted, and to forget that the Internet we use every day depends in part on the freely donated work of thousands of programmers. If open-source software is at the heart of the Internet, then we might need to examine it from time to time to make sure it’s not bleeding.

Rusty Foster: The Internet’s Telltale Heartbleed (New Yorker)