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0 pointssaagarjha8y ago0 comments

In a week they will be less secure, because they will forget to remove their root account and Apple will have push out a fix.

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reitanqild8y ago

That's a whole week where they can get owned by any kid with physical access to the machine. In some settings (schools, libraries) this might be a huge issue.

saagarjhaOP8y ago

Which comes back to another point I made in this thread: there should have been responsible disclosure of the issue.

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0 pointssaagarjha8y ago0 comments

In a week they will be less secure, because they will forget to remove their root account and Apple will have push out a fix.

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reitanqild8y ago

That's a whole week where they can get owned by any kid with physical access to the machine. In some settings (schools, libraries) this might be a huge issue.

saagarjhaOP8y ago

Which comes back to another point I made in this thread: there should have been responsible disclosure of the issue.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse