alt Hacker NewsThe thing that makes this especially odd is that Apple apparently has a fast-track way of shipping security patches for the OSs that don't require the user to go through the lengthier OS upgrade process. But for some reason, they haven't used it here.
Replies
saagarjha • yesterday at 5:55 PM
Yes because that thing is completely useless and provides basically no value
genxy • yesterday at 4:42 PM
Apple has one job here and it isn't to make UIs that look like melted plexiglass. I am fucking pissed.
That fast-track method was used, but it only applies to "graphical" software which really means, software that uses Apple's macOS specific APIs and frameworks, not the lower level UNIX stuff like /etc/ssl
I suspect the fast-track background security updates can only update the databases and revocation lists that live in the proprietary APIs, not any arbitrary file on the system