Just FYI, OpenSSL is NOT the only player on the market for encryption. Microsoft has its own certificate services. The major public key infrastructure (PKI) players such as VeriSign and Thawte are unaffected, as they have proprietary encryption signing software.
If sites like Amazon, AOL, Fidelity, LinkedIn, etc. show they’re not affected, they’re not affected. They don’t use OpenSSL for encryption.
This is one of those things where you really do get what you paid for.
See, just that paragraph which makes complete sense to you might as well be written in Japanese as far as me understanding it.....LOL!
I just posted that article as an explanation to the "illiterate" as it made the most sense to me as to which systems/companys were affected/or not. Sorry if I only added to the confusion.