> And you can't say it's because this bug only affects a small portion of Lion users as the Dropbox bug also only affected 100 accounts. - The dropbox issue

> And you can't say it's because this bug only affects a small portion of Lion users as the Dropbox bug also only affected 100 accounts. - The dropbox issue was not initially reported as 100 exposed accounts, it was reported as "Dropbox vulnerable", that's something that alarms about 99% of the HN readership. - Dropbox is a YC company. - Dropbox is exposed to the world and the issue was seemingly out of users control (until the facts were known). By comparison, the OSX issue was initially reported as being LDAP specific which probably means it's not an issue for 99% of HN readership. The OSX issue can also be disabled, at great inconvenience I'm sure, but the point is you can protect yourself. The OSX issue is a big screwup, but I see no mystery as to the response.