STREAM OF CONSCIOUS FLOW

Has it ever crossed your mind that the internet can actually collapse?I bet you would never want to wish for such a thing to happen.Well,that question popped up on my mind and i built up a theory that can lead to the collapse of the internet.Ladies and gentlemen,THE HEARTBLEED THEORY BY BIZNERATI!!
       To start with,i guess you are familiar with the heartbleed bug that hit the internet waves on April 2014 affecting upto 1million websites found on Open ssl cryptography.This was the biggest flaw in the history of the internet with conspiracy pointing a hand at NSA.But i guess it was just a conspiracy.The conspiracy points out that NSA had built a bug which went undiscovered for 2 good years and they exploited the bug to steal private info.Just conspiracy but who knows.Onto the main story,Open ssl is an open source software hold across the global to encrypt communication happening over the internet.Heartbleed on the other hand is a bug that affects the open ssl which results to massive passwords,encryption keys and sensituve data being compromised.Heartbleed is also a bug in the open ssl heartbeat extension and you know what that means.
     Internet comprises of 99% communication and most of the communication happening is under Open ssl because Open ssl is preferred due to  the ability of bugs being identified and fixed in due time by experts and public in general.Thats why majority of communication in the internet  is enclosed by open ssl.This comes to the stream of conscious flow i was having about the internet downfall.
       When heartbleed strikes,all the communication in the open ssl is compromised and sensitive information is leaked.Since open ssl is the library used by programmers to encrypt data from the web.So you can picture the impact of heartbleed.This is an advantage to enterprise hackers as they can utilise the information they have at hand for their own gain.The heartbleed bug can be exploited by a hacker or hackers to read blocks of 66KBs from the servers Random Access Memory .The hacker can sift 66KB block at a time till he or she gets all he or she  wanted.That validates my stream of conscious flow.Check it,All the communication done on the internet or most of the communication done over the internet is stored in a memory  on open ssl server.When heartbleed comes it sweeps all the communication stored in the memory  and can be deleted or harm done.
    Heartbleed also leads to a  tsunami of high profile hacks as well.Established organizations with websites are always a target for enterprise hackers.The big question is how the heartbleed came into existence.With reports pointing out that heartbleed was born on 2011 and it came to be realised 2 years later which indicates that thousands of passwords may have been compromised over the 2 years heartbleed still had not been detected.
     However ,the good news is that the bug can be fixed by patching up servers and having an up to date cert and it also does not affect most of the social media sites.
     To know if your website has been attacked by the heartbleed bug,just run the Heartbleed Test page or alternatively if you have an android phone you might as well download the Heartbleed security scanner  that helps detect whether your android device is affected by the heartbleed bug

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