> Disclosures make careers, though, so there's a strong incentive to go public. And Apple is doing their part by not emphasizing the role of the person who did

> Disclosures make careers, though, so there's a strong incentive to go public. And Apple is doing their part by not emphasizing the role of the person who did disclose responsibly: This is obviously very bad news. Apple has evidently known about this issue for a while now – not due to Esser, but thanks to a responsible researcher going by the Twitter handle @beist, who had alerted Apple some time before Esser discovered the bug. As an outside observer, all I see here is: Don't alert Apple.