{"id":1931,"date":"2014-04-11T14:44:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T21:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2014-04-11T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T21:46:36","slug":"wild-idea-mozilla-100-million-open-source-security-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/wild-idea-mozilla-100-million-open-source-security-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild idea: @mozilla $100 million open-source security project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the #<a href=\"http:\/\/heartbleed.com\/\">heartbleed<\/a> bug:<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla could:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>get $5m from Google<\/li>\n<li>$5m from Facebook<\/li>\n<li>$5m from Amazon, IBM, Yahoo etc. etc.<\/li>\n<li>get $1m each from Fidelity, and BofA and all the banks<\/li>\n<li>get $1m each from the major e-commerce sites<\/li>\n<li>and from anybody who uses open-source code for their business and really gets hurt by something like heartbleed,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>for a total of $100 million a year. Then, set up a totally transparent, international crack organization that reviews and tests all important open-source code for security vulnerabilities. That would make a huge different for future heartbleeds (and if you think there are no others lurking, I have an entire fleet of bridges to sell you :-))<\/p>\n<p>It could be somebody else who does it &#8212; like the EFF. But it&#8217;s totally consistent with Mozilla&#8217;s value of putting the user first, unlike others they know about how to Q&amp;A and secure code, and I think they could attract the right people to do it.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I don&#8217;t think this is about the NSA: if they can find heartbleed, anybody else can find it. And not even the NSA would want that if they thought about this for a second. (hope they do!)<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: This is a wild idea only. I do not speak for Mozilla, never have, likely never will, and I have not even run this by anybody at Mozilla. Just thought it would be worth jotting down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the #heartbleed bug: Mozilla could: get $5m from Google $5m from Facebook $5m from Amazon, IBM, Yahoo etc. etc. get $1m each from Fidelity, and BofA and all the banks get $1m each from the major e-commerce sites and from anybody who uses open-source code for their business and really gets hurt&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,35],"tags":[319,309],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productsiwant","category-security","tag-heartbleed","tag-mozilla","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}