I’m glad there are people like you around, who understand this stuff, to help people like me, who don’t, know when it’s time to freak out and when it’s not time to :)
Thanks for the appreciation. There are folks in the tech press and even some FReepers, who love to exaggerate the significance and potential hazard of various flaws in Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, etc. These days, there are darn few that merit freaking out over. But the folks who love attention are desperate for it and will make any molehill into a mountain for self-aggrandizement.
This Shellshock Bash bug is real, but it's not the end of the world, and certainly not the huge mess it's being made out to be, with regard to Macintosh machines. Apple will produce a patch in a few days that will take care of it, and that will be that.
It's actually a much bigger problem for Linux and Unix servers, and as a system admin I've got a LOT of those to patch.... ugh.