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petcat • yesterday at 12:29 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Well that "screw up" was so egregious that it should take at least a decade to regain any trust.

I don't really care one way or another. I use Linux and I use macOS. But I'm not naive to think the security is any better in one or the other.


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cromka • yesterday at 1:16 PM

> Well that "screw up" was so egregious that it should take at least a decade to regain any trust.

Do you use macOS? Because if you did, then how did you recover from them allowing anyone to straight-up log in as root without password? And then mess up the fix for that bug? That wasn't 2008, that was 8 years ago.

alt227 • yesterday at 4:28 PM

> it should take at least a decade to regain any trust

Then as it has been 2 decades you should be all good right?

fg137 • yesterday at 12:38 PM

Security practice was generally very, very bad two decades ago, by today's standards, across the industry.

I don't see the point of being so fixated on that.

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ajjahs • yesterday at 4:28 PM

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