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This is a great example of why a little knowledge is a bad thing. It almost sounds like you know what you are talking about, which probably confuses people. Heartbleed is dangerous because it exposes private keys, and that let's you decrypt SSL traffic. That in turn may let you read passwords. Don't conflate the two separate things. Compartmentizing is good, but doesn't protect against Heartbleed. Disposable proxies…
The Private key thing is "bad" but far less bad than the user data that is being exposed. The Private Key Exposure lets you do impersonation, but you would have to do something with DNS, or such to get it to work. Where as me getting your user/pass, or account information has immediate impact, and can't be "undone". PS Conflate doesn't mean what you think it does. Conflate has to be wrapper for several topics or idea…
Re: CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked
#151"Conflate" is very often, and properly, used to mean "treating two unrelated things as though they were related," which I believe is exactly what the poster meant to say you are doing. You can make an argument that "trying to conflate" would be more accurate, but only if you're more of a linguistic prescriptivist than most editors.