NSA Knew About and Exploited Heartbleed---Unless it Didn't
The other day, walking out of Aikido class, I was chatting with a friend about Heartbleed. I joked that the latest revelation reminded me of a scene from the classic Martin Scorsese movie, After Hours. In it, the hero, chased by an angry mob, runs up a fire escape, where--by coincidence--he watches a woman shoot her husband in an apartment across the alley. "I'll probably get blamed for that," he says fatalistically. That, I told my friend, is what they must be saying at Fort Meade today.
The other day, walking out of Aikido class, I was chatting with a friend about Heartbleed. I joked that the latest revelation reminded me of a scene from the classic Martin Scorsese movie, After Hours. In it, the hero, chased by an angry mob, runs up a fire escape, where--by coincidence--he watches a woman shoot her husband in an apartment across the alley. "I'll probably get blamed for that," he says fatalistically. That, I told my friend, is what they must be saying at Fort Meade today. That was Tuesday.
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
