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		betadreamer on April 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Heartbleed Bug I'm not a security guru... So what kind of attack can this cause? Does this mean https will not be secured if the site uses vulnerable OpenSSL?

dijit on April 8, 2014 [–]

it means if you're running a bad version of openssl then someone can dump the entire contents of your ram, including public/private keys, and anything that is in memory such as passwords and even DB connections.

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