Steve Marquess, one of his founding members OpenSSL Software Foundation, expressed his concerns after the Heartbleed scandal and drew attention to its open source nature services.
While many took the opportunity to quip that this is what happens when we entrust the development of such an important tool as OpenSSL to too many people, Steve Marquess admitted that he needs support from various businesses but also the government as well as a small group of full-time employees.
"As it has also been reported in the news lately, the OpenSSL Software Foundation (OSF) is a legal entity created to save money on OpenSSL support," says Steve Marquess, explaining that the OpenSSL Software Foundation makes about $ 2.000 from donations.
In the last week, he admitted that there were somewhere over two hundred donations that managed to increase earnings on 9.000 dollars.
However, this amount is not enough to survive project OpenSSL, let alone prosper and let us be sure that bugs like Heartbleed will not appear again.
So the OpenSSL Software Foundation says it needs active support from companies, governments, and anyone else willing to give a helping hand to be able to hire a proper development team for the OpenSSL project.
Αν και η ιδέα στήριξης του OpenSSL Software Foundation απο εταιρείες και κυβερνήσεις ακούγεται απαραίτητη και αρκετά δελεαστική, δεν μπορούμε να γνωρίζουμε τους κινδύνους. Η γνωστή πολιτική των ΗΠΑ, να παρακολουθεί όλο τον κόσμο και τα αποδεικτικά στοιχεία που έχουν δει το light της δημοσιότητας από τον Snowden, δεν μας αφήνουν αμφιβολίες για το τι μπορούν να μαγειρέψουν οι μυστικές υπηρεσίες, κάτω από το τραπέζι.
The Heartbleed bug, which has affected about two-thirds of the world's websites, was caused by a major programming error. Imagine what could happen with a government hand of "help" or to put it another way with a full funding of the project from the US government.
