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Tech giants throw money at OpenSSL in response to Heartbleed

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OpenSSL is getting funded for two full-time developers and a security audit in an attempt to prevent another devastating bug like Heartbleed.

The money is coming from theĀ Core Infrastructure InitiativeĀ (CII), a group of tech companies that came together last month in response to Heartbleed. At the time, CII said that each company would contribute at least $100,000 per year to crucial open-source projects over at least a three-year span, but the group didn’t say how it would distribute the funds.