Why you should expect your favorite websites to crash over the next few weeks

If you find yourself unable to access your favorite websites over the next few weeks, don’t worry: The Internet isn’t broken, it’s just undergoing very needed repairs. The Washington Post has talked with some security experts who expect that patching the Heartbleed bug is going to cause major disruptions on the Internet for a while as major web companies scramble to guard their websites against a bug that caught the tech world flat-footed last week. “Imagine if we found out all at once that all the doors everybody uses are all vulnerable — they can all get broken into,” Jason Healey, a cybersecurity scholar at the Washington-based Atlantic Council, told the Post. “The kinds of bad things it enables is

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