No, they actually would be safer because now that the exploit has been publicly disclosed, a much more vast audience of malicous hackers knows about and can use the exploit. If you assume someone knew about the exploit before (which is a safe assumption), it was probably only a small number of people because I'm sure some hacker isn't going to share something he thinks he's the only one sitting on. While security through obscurity is definitely a bad thing, it's at least somewhat better than having the hole posted for the world to see, getting even more publicity because of the surrounding debate on the subject.

I disagree that Blu-ray is going to die off. With all the DRM-laden media available for purchase online and this stupid C-61 copyright bill coming up in Canada that will probably make torrent illegal somehow, I'd much rather be able to purchase something I can physically hold in my hands and keep, to be able to play at any time on my Blu-ray player. Also don't have to worry whether my bandwidth can handle streaming HD or not, be it the internet connection or the home router, or my PC itself.

I completely agree with Anonymous Coward. Also, it's not being spineless if our country stands up to international pressure rather than bowing to it at the expense of the average Canadian. As a country, we can have whatever copyright laws we feel apply to our own people. If our laws adversely affect the economy or political views of other countries, it's up to them to make laws that control their own population, not to pressure us to hurt our own population to satisfy their needs.

While placing a function's return address right next to its local variables and arguments on the stack is kind of a dumb idea, there are many higher-level security issues to work out that aren't specific to x86. For example, phishing, cross-site scripting, input validation, side-channel attacks, in-band attacks, and the fact that it's safe to assume the user is an idiot that will click on anything he's told to. The list goes on.

I happened to be looking up "DNS Failover" on Wikipedia at the time of the DNS failure

It's true, I'm in my senior year of high school and at least five of my friends and I all bought a copy.