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It's a massive global security vulnerability with huge amounts of public exposure (so any malicious user is well aware they can take advantage). If they did, wo
by bpicolo 9y ago
It's a massive global security vulnerability with huge amounts of public exposure (so any malicious user is well aware they can take advantage). If they did, wouldn't be surprised and I'd be glad they did.
- inetknght 9y agoIf they did for this, great. But the fact that they could for any other update, too, is what's scary.
- 0x0 9y agoThey do this all the time with invisible updates. Click AppleMenu > About this mac > System Report, and scroll down to Software > Installations, and click on the "Install Date" column header twice to sort by install date descending, and you will discover apple pushing updates very frequently for things like "MRTConfigData", "XProtectPlistConfigData", "Voice Update - Samantha", "Gatekeeper Configuration Data", "Chinese word list update" etc etc. It's not without flaws; at least once they slipped up and pushed a blacklist for their own ethernet adapter driver (cutting off their own patch life-line, I guess, for those affected) : https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mac-update-breaks-ethernet-fix/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/mac-update-breaks-et...
- mikeash 9y agoIt's an option that this person enabled. Nothing scary.