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Seems like you are splitting hairs here. Clearly, the point the commenter was making is that people that have now set the root password as a result of the tweet
by wuliwong 9y ago
Seems like you are splitting hairs here. Clearly, the point the commenter was making is that people that have now set the root password as a result of the tweet are more secure than they were before the tweet.
- saagarjha 9y agoIn a week they will be less secure, because they will forget to remove their root account and Apple will have push out a fix.
- reitanqild 9y agoThat'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.
- saagarjha 9y agoWhich comes back to another point I made in this thread: there should have been responsible disclosure of the issue.