Yes, I agree: that is what conspiracy theorists do regardless of the facts on the ground. But that's tangential to my point. People on HN found the "goto fail" bug damning because of the specific form it took (among other reasons), and I'm happy to point out how damning that form turns out not to be.

The fact that GnuTLS is extraordinarily unlikely to host an NSA backdoor helps my point, which is why I brought it up.

Note: I am not a conspiracy theorist.

However, I would agree with a hypothetical conspiracy theorist who would disagree with your assumption: Linux may be the platform for many high-value targets and companies, so it's not quantity, but..."quality" of a sort.

How many linux based servers are online right now? More than Apple devices? Less?

This doesn't impact every single Linux server online right now, the Apple bug impacted every iOS device which was in use.

Orders of magnitude different degrees of harm.

How many of its programs link to gnutls though? And if I'm not misunderstandig only client software is vulnerable to the cited attack.

Is BULLRUN a conspiracy theory?