Much of the coverage has focused on what happened and
how it could have been prevented, but the question now is whether Facebook — and
other big tech companies — will have to be regulated by the government in a way we never imagined before.
Heartbleed drew attention to just
how underfunded this critical piece of software was, so
big tech companies committed to chipping in money every year to fund the development of OpenSSL and
other important projects as part of the «Core Infrastructure Initiative ``.