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NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers claimed during a Stanford talk that the agency discovered the "Heartbleed" vulnerability and shared the patch with the private sector within 24 hours. This contradicts the public narrative that Google researcher Neel Mehta discovered the bug. The hosts suggest the NSA allowed Google to take credit to maintain a "fundamentally strong internet" while hiding the agency's involvement.
The discovery of the Heartbleed bug by security firm Codenomicon and Google researcher Neel Mehta is scrutinized for its suspicious timing and connections to government spooks. Howard A. Schmidt, a former White House cybersecurity coordinator, serves as the chairman of Codenomicon, while Mehta has ties to the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The hosts question the "coincidental" simultaneous discovery of a two-year-old bug by two separate entities.
