Google Knew About Heartbleed And Didn’t Tell The Government

For some period of time, Google knew about a critical flaw in Internet security and didn't alert anyone in the government.

Neel Mehta, a Google engineer, first discovered "Heartbleed" -- a bug that undermines the widely used encryption technology OpenSSL -- sometime in March. A team at the Finnish security firm Codenomicon discovered the flaw around the same time. Google was able to patch most of its services -- such as email, search, and YouTube -- before the companies publicized the bug on April 7.