Okay, what exactly is your point then? You seem to be arguing that the only reason this got coverage was because it was easy for laypeople to understand, but none of the other examples you're comparing to involved the spectacular vendor incompetence in rolling out the patch that made Apple a laughing-stock online and gave the media such a sensational story to cover, and the only one [edit: well, only TLS one] that even made it into a release was so long ago most people on here have probably forgotten the details. (I wasn't on Hacker News at the time, but it definitely made it to Slashdot and as I recall resulted in a lot of people complaining about SSL/TLS being a disaster by design.)