Has the NSA been exploiting the ‘heartbleed bug’ for two years?

  When I first read the story about the internet security risk dubbed the heartbleed bug my first reaction was skeptical. Call me cynical if you will but I thought this was an over-reaction designed to draw support with the American people for the internet kill switch the Obama regime so desperately wants.

  But now a new story has come to light which makes this story even more interesting.

  According to this story the NSA has known about this security risk for two years and has actually been exploiting it for two years in the interest of national security.

The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said.

The agency’s reported decision to keep the bug secret in pursuit of national security interests threatens to renew the rancorous debate over the role of the government’s top computer experts. 

  The NSA is naturally denying this claim by stating they only found out about this risk when the rest of us did, but does anyone believe that the agency which is capable of collecting the meta-data of every single phone call in America, has been hacking into Facebook and Twitter accounts, and has the capability to hack into computers which are off-line had no idea this vulnerability existed until they heard about it in the mainstream media?

  I certainly do not and quite frankly this sounds like the same excuse Barack Obama uses every time a new scandal is brought to light…..