Nexus owners are about to get a surprise OTA update, but it's not Android 5.0 Lemon Drop Sunshine. It's another build of KitKat, specifically 4.4.4 with build number KTU84P (branch kitkat-mr2.1-release). Sprint has posted the Nexus 5 changelog on its community forums, and it's apparently a security fix.
Our first suspicion was Towelroot, but it looks like 4.4.4 is mainly fixing something else. According to a Googler, the security fix in question is related to CVE-2014-0224, which is an OpenSSL bug allowing a man-in-the-middle attack.
Google Rolling Out Android 4.4.4 Update (KTU84P) With A Security Fix, Factory Images/Binaries Up For Nexus Devices was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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