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Not sure why people are claiming this as malicious. If Apple thought making life inconvenient for linux users was a good idea, this is about the least effective
by czr 8y ago
Not sure why people are claiming this as malicious. If Apple thought making life inconvenient for linux users was a good idea, this is about the least effective possible way to do that. And it's unclear why Apple would want to do that in the first place.
Seems far more likely that Apple was facing some sort of automated attacks on this particular subdomain (with linux UAs), and a beleaguered admin used this as a quick fix.
Or, even more probably, it's a misconfiguration.
- addicted 8y agoRemember when the only way to watch an Apple event live on their site was if you were using an Apple device? It’s likely not malicious in the sense that they want to punish Linux users. And blocking Linux for this particular site may not have been something they even wanted to do. But in general Apple has been unnecessarily hostile towards non Apple devices, and it’s not hard to believe this is a consequence of that.