Douglas_Knight comments on My Heartbleed learning experience and alternative to poor quality Heartbleed instructions. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 15 April 2014 03:40:24PM 4 points [-]

that has been badly exploited (200,000 Canadian social insurance numbers were leaked today [4])

but your link has the number 900, not 200,000. Moreover, my understanding is that numbers like this are a commodity: leaking the number is the least significant part of this process and criminals already have more than they can use, if not all 30 million.

Comment author: aisarka 16 April 2014 12:36:44AM *  1 point [-]

That's been fixed. I was pretty surprised about this mistake. I remember finding that Canadian website link via a news article discussing the impact of Heartbleed. Maybe I copied the number from the news article, but somehow got mixed up while switching between the two pages and ended up grabbing a number that was relevant to some other topic on the news page. Thanks for catching that.