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Tech companies unite to avoid another Heartbleed disaster

Tech companies unite to avoid another Heartbleed disaster
Lewis Leong

Lewis Leong

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Today, the Linux Foundation announced a mutli-million dollar initiative to fund open-source projects. The Core Infrastructure Initiative will help raise and distribute funding to open-source projects that are critical to the internet. OpenSSL, the open-source encryption software library responsible for Heartbleed, is the first project under consideration for funding.

The Linux Foundation hopes to provide more resources to open-source projects that are critical to the internet. In the past, the OpenSSL project received just $2,000 per year in donations. Understaffed and underfunded projects like OpenSSL could lead to catastrophic bugs in the future.

Big names like Google, Amazon, and Facebook have all pledged to be part of the Core Infrastructure Initiative. “We believe that an open-source approach to online security will ensure that code is constantly improving, making the web a safer place for us all,” said Chris DiBona, Director of Engineering for Open Source at Google. All web companies benefit from this initiative as there are universally used open-source technologies.

Users can help donate to the Core Infrastructure Initiative as well. You can contribute via the Linux Foundation’s site.

For more about the Heartbleed bug, you can find all our coverage here.

Source: Linux Foundation

Via: Ars Technica

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