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I hope the Apple security team that was assigned to investigate this report is enjoying a nice beverage tonight. Dealing with unconfirmed critical security repo
by bink 4y ago
I hope the Apple security team that was assigned to investigate this report is enjoying a nice beverage tonight. Dealing with unconfirmed critical security reports with few details can be a nightmare, especially when they turn out to be unfounded.
Good practice for the real thing, though.
- gw99 4y agoThis stuff happens all the time. A few years back a company I was contracting for had one of their end users report a high severity security defect. Apparently he signed into the app and thought he had been hacked because a couple of large 6-figure transactions had been made. After several hours of inconclusive investigation where even identifying the user proved difficult, this turned out to be him seeing the marketing example screens in the app store and having a panic. The app never even got installed and he never signed up for it. The marketing screens were quickly updated to show something less impressive and with a sample data only warning...
- Exuma 4y agoI wonder how big of a company you'd have to be to go through all the effort of changing marketing screens because of that. I can think of the biggest company I've worked for laugh at that and move on.
- Arrath 4y ago> The app never even got installed and he never signed up for it. ....that is some serious "My computer won't turn on. No I can't check to see if the power cord is plugged in, its too dark to see back there because the power is out." energy.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI’m quite curious to be a fly on the wall where the decision was made to accommodate the lowest common denominator. Why wouldn’t he just be dismissed rather than wasting hundreds or thousands of dollars of employee time? By chance could you illuminate the thought process?
- gw99 4y agoWhen you are in a regulated industry it’s better to be sure than incur the wrath of the regulator.
- Waterluvian 4y agoAh! That’s a good point.
- bobbylarrybobby 4y agoI’m guessing they figured that the lowest common denominator was rather close to the “median” common denominator.
- joeframbach 4y agoWas it Personal Capital? I always thought it was silly that the demo screenshots in the marketing were some absurd amount in the multi millions. Like, who do you think you are marketing to?