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Introduction
Adam:Hello and welcome to CoRecursive. I’m Adam Gordon Bell. Each episode of CoRecursive, someone shares the fascinating story behind some piece of software being built. On April 1st, 2014, an open source maintainer got an email from Google about a security issue, and this was not an April Fool’s joke. This was [inaudible 00:00:21] and the project was OpenSSL. 17% of the world’s web servers were affected, and by the time the dust settled, people started asking questions like, “Why was this open source maintainer who received only $2,000 in donations a year responsible for 17% of the world’s encrypted web traffic?”