Nowhere in the article does it say they were stock options. They were always referred to as stock. Stock options and stocks are very different things. Stock is actual ownership in a company, and except for very rare circumstances, can't be stripped from a user. Stock options however are a...
Ah, now that makes sense. I was trying to figure out how a server side buffer overread was going to cause problems on my smartphone. I really wish all the reports on Heartbleed contained at least SOME technical details. The mainstream media really has no idea what this is all about. This...
Perhaps part of the problem is that it is listed as an update, rather than a new application like Safari, et. al. is listed as. People have been trained to always install updates to their software for security reasons. So when they see that an update is available, they install it.
Instead...