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It's a long time since I used Unix and shellscript etc and it makes a change, although not really a pleasant one, to hear tales of woes related to the can-do-no-wrong-Linux platform instead of the Axis-of-Evil Microsoft.

When I have read and digested these articles about the bug in bash, maybe I willbe able to offer some critical comment. For now, I am in curate-only mode.

Wired.com article:-

The Internet Is Broken, and Shellshock Is Just the Start of Our Woes

More restrained headline from wired.co.uk:-

Shellshock bug already enabling botnet attacks