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		lmm on Jan 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maersk reinstalled thousands of servers and workst... Heartbleed was a bug in OpenSSL code running on any platform, including Windows.

cm2187 on Jan 29, 2018 [–]

IIS doesn't use OpenSSL. It mostly affected linux boxes.

lmm on Jan 29, 2018 | [–]

Sure, because most people using e.g. Apache run Linux, but it doesn't make sense to count it as a "linux bug" any more than it makes sense to count e.g. Ruby bugs as Linux bugs, or .net CLR bugs as Windows bugs.

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