Who is Robin Seggelmann and did his Heartbleed break the internet?

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http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/who-is-robin-seggelmann-and-did-his-heartbleed-break-the-internet-20140411-zqtjj.html

By Lia Timson
smh.com.au
April 11, 2014

German computer programmer Robin Seggelman has been outed as the man whose 
coding mistake, now known as Heartbleed, has left millions of internet 
users and thousands of websites vulnerable to hackers.

The discovery, by Google engineers, has prompted experts to call on people 
to change their passwords to most, if not all, websites they subscribe to 
after site owners have fixed their vulnerabilities.

Dr Seggelman, 31, from the small town of Oelde in north-west Germany, is a 
contributor to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a 
not-for-profit global group whose mission is to make the internet work 
better. He is attached to the Munster University of Applied Sciences in 
Germany, where, as research associate in the networking programming lab in 
the department of electrical engineering and computer science, he has 
published a number of papers, including his thesis on strategies to secure 
internet communications in 2012. He has been writing academic papers and 
giving talks on security matters since 2009, while still a PhD student.

Advertisement His academic research influence index score of two, based on 
the number of scientific citations of his work, suggests an influential 
thinker at the early stages of his scientific career.

According to the IETF, Dr Seggelman previously worked for Dutch Telecom IT 
services subsidiary T-Systems, possibly the largest such consultancy in 
Germany.

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