Confirmed: the NSA doesn't have to tell us when it finds security flaws like Heartbleed

Confirmed: the NSA doesn't have to tell us when it finds security flaws like Heartbleed: The most controversial aspect of the rapidly developing story of Heartbleed - possibly the greatest security vulnerability in the history of the Internet - is the assertion made in a Bloomberg News report that the National Security Agency learned about the problem soon after it was introduced... but kept the knowledge to itself, leaving the American people exposed to a glitch that could compromise passwords and personal information on hundreds of thousands of websites, because the NSA wanted to exploit Heartbleed for its own cyber-warfare purposes.

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