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I dislike Google like the next guy. And this is problem of monumental proportions. But if you came here to piss on Android and praise Apple's security, let me
by openplatypus 4y ago
I dislike Google like the next guy. And this is problem of monumental proportions.
But if you came here to piss on Android and praise Apple's security, let me remind you of this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/334611/huge-macos-bug-allows-root-login-without-a-password.-heres-the-fix/ https://www.howtogeek.com/334611/huge-macos-bug-allows-root-...
- jagged-chisel 4y agoSurely you can find something more recent than five years.
- hu3 4y agoI don't see how the timing is relevant here.
- jagged-chisel 4y agoLet’s take it to the extreme. Suppose this becomes the last bug Google exhibits in the next fifty years. Forty nine years in the future Apple makes a major security faux pas. Do we need to remind everyone that Google made a bug fifty years ago, too?
- hu3 4y agoOr we can be realistic and agree that neither Apple nor Google are immune to future bugs.
- izacus 4y agoLike Apple not patching macOS security holes on older versions: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/psa-apple-isnt-actually-patching-all-the-security-holes-in-older-versions-of-macos/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/psa-apple-isnt-actua... ? (This happened again with Ventura).
- jagged-chisel 4y agoExactly. And I suggest this is a much better example of egregious security practices than that 5yo article.
- openplatypus 4y agoSoftware is written by people and organizations made of people. Security issues are precisely because of that. Rather than focusing on bug we ought to focus on how it was handled. And, in this case it was obviously poorly addressed. So let's focus on that, not on "iOS/MacOS is superior" because it is not (it is not free from flaws).
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- pvg 4y agoMore important not to come here trying to goad other users into some pointless flamewar.