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Apple has become too big to fail. Most customers and shareholders don’t care about security issues, responsible disclosure or bug bounty programs. And given App
by Karupan 5y ago
Apple has become too big to fail. Most customers and shareholders don’t care about security issues, responsible disclosure or bug bounty programs. And given Apple’s ultra secretive workplace policies, I don’t have a lot of hope that people who actually care within the company can make any significant change either.
- ryanlol 5y ago> Most customers and shareholders don’t care about security issues, responsible disclosure or bug bounty programs. This applies to just about every company.
- coldcode 5y agoEver try to ship 1000's of SDKs and new OSs at the same time every year, build new hardware, even chips, keep dev pipelines going for years in advance, and keep it from being plastered all over HN and reddit? It's a miracle anything works. Probably it's a management nightmare to keep all this moving, and clearly parts of Apple are likely poorly managed. I worked there 25 years ago when it was going out of business (before Steve), and it was already a complicated mess. Does not of course mean they shouldn't make a bug bounty that works. You'd think that someone would care in a company that values privacy. But if you have to deal with 50000 different simultaneous issues some are likely to fall through the cracks. My last job was at a huge company with even more employees (not tech but built a lot in-house) and you'd be amazed at how much crap is never addressed that seemed obvious to us low level people.