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> This is actually about blasting OS X for not having updated versions of software. No it's not, it's blasting OS X for shipping software with a known remote e
by imron 11y ago
> This is actually about blasting OS X for not having updated versions of software.
No it's not, it's blasting OS X for shipping software with a known remote execution vulnerability, and not allowing the user to easily upgrade that software themselves due to new OS-wide security policies.
- dkopi 11y agoGood point. I stand corrected.
- Kristine1975 11y ago>and not allowing the user to easily upgrade that software themselves due to new OS-wide security policies. But the author didn't try that. They merely speculated that upgrading over top of that will almost certainly screw something up later. I upgraded the Subversion that's shipped with XCode 5 on OS X 10.9 (both old, I know) without any problems simply by manually replacing the files in /Applications/XCode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin.
- imron 11y agoNote however that on 10.9, the author would have just been able to do chmod -x /usr/bin/git and this wouldn't be a problem. It's the 'System Integrity Protection' feature in conjunction with this version of git that the author has a problem with.