Um... the effort I had to take to patch my linux boxes was: Do nothing. (security fixes had been released and installed before I learned of the bug). The effor

Um... the effort I had to take to patch my linux boxes was: Do nothing. (security fixes had been released and installed before I learned of the bug). The effort I'll have to take to patch my Mac is: * Download a new bash. * recompile it * install it by hand. (and this is assuming I already have xcode/developer tools installed). Not quite the same level of effort. Is the article wildy off topic? Not really - its an article about yet another instance of Apple ignoring security issues, why wouldn't a previous example be relevant?