Tech titans join forces to stop the next Heartbleed

The Linux Foundation’s new Core Infrastructure Initiative creates a virtual Justice League of the biggest tech firms to ensure that open-source code gets the cryptographic scrutiny that it desperately needs.

In between hurriedly snapping 1,250 pieces of a Lego Millennium Falcon set together in time for his daughter’s sixth birthday last Sunday, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, was just as frantically making calls to tech’s biggest firms. The future of Internet security could be at stake.