Meh. We (techies) always knew the risks of running random crap in kernel space, especially when it runs junk it downloads from the internet. So, I expect this

Meh. We (techies) always knew the risks of running random crap in kernel space, especially when it runs junk it downloads from the internet. So, I expect this to be spun somehow along the lines of "sure all our boxes were down, but look, you've brought them all back up, didn't you? Now think about all the bad guys this protects us against! Of course the risk was worth it!". Also, "everybody does this! we couldn't have known!" "security people" are scared shitless of the whole "the world is ending! there are threats everywhere!" discourse that vendors peddle. The less technical, the more scared they are. Many of these people don't really understand what they're talking about and what compromises their decisions actually imply. Losing a day of work is simply dwarfed by "all your data is gone!".