[RankingMember]

I would think that the NSA would be opening themselves up to quite a firestorm if they were found to be exploiting this bug without saying a word about it. I very much doubt they were making use of this for the simple fact that, by not disclosing, they'd be allowing this gaping hole to potentially be used by "enemy" governments, which is the exact opposite of what they want.

[antocv]

If they knew about this, they used it, and they told or by other means deactivated heartbeat for sensitive systems of USA, and using honeypots to see if the Russians and Chinese have figured it out too.

Then when their honeypots attract alot of bees, is time to tell Google to seal the hole, to protect all the medium sensitivity networks and info.

[RankingMember]

Good thought, though I would think that the reason behind a ton of government offices suddenly dropping SSL would've been leaked by one of the many hands involved.