For the past week, a lot of the tech world has been trying to figure out what to do about the Heartbleed bug that has the potential to compromise the security of any website that uses the Open SSL encryption protocol. However, The National Journal reports that Google got a big head start on patching Heartbleed because it discovered the security hole back in March and never told anyone else about it. In some ways this isn’t too surprising since companies often make sure to patch their own websites and services when they discover security flaws before telling the world about them. However, The National Journal notes that “keeping the bug secret from the U.S. government may have left federal
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