Since this story has been around for a while I'm a bit skeptical of a Windows news site making a big deal out of it the day after the Microsoft SideKick inciden

Since this story has been around for a while I'm a bit skeptical of a Windows news site making a big deal out of it the day after the Microsoft SideKick incident. Luckily it's a rarely used feature in OSX which is how a bug like this can exist without much fanfare. I'm more concerned about the Finder file-copy-no-merge issue which is dangerous design by choice; not a bug. At least once a week I almost get burnt by it so I imagine normal users who aren't so careful are constantly destroying data due to badly worded dialog boxes.