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Heartbeat OpenSSL bug does not affect OSX.
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1578975" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>It's not that OS X & iOS don't have it/use it, it's that the services that Apple leverages might. For example, iCloud runs off of Linux boxes (<a href="http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://icloud.com" target="_blank">source</a>) which most likely do use OpenSSL in some fashion. In this way, Apple has likely indirectly leveraged OpenSSL along the way at some point since most of their web based services are managed by non-Apple platforms. It's pure speculation on my part but it's safe to say that, since 2/3 of the web is powered by it for cryptographic work (<a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/critical-crypto-bug-in-openssl-opens-two-thirds-of-the-web-to-eavesdropping/" target="_blank">source</a>), it's been involved at some point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1578975, member: 71075"] It's not that OS X & iOS don't have it/use it, it's that the services that Apple leverages might. For example, iCloud runs off of Linux boxes ([URL="http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://icloud.com"]source[/URL]) which most likely do use OpenSSL in some fashion. In this way, Apple has likely indirectly leveraged OpenSSL along the way at some point since most of their web based services are managed by non-Apple platforms. It's pure speculation on my part but it's safe to say that, since 2/3 of the web is powered by it for cryptographic work ([URL="http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/critical-crypto-bug-in-openssl-opens-two-thirds-of-the-web-to-eavesdropping/"]source[/URL]), it's been involved at some point. [/QUOTE]
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