Daniel and Manton discuss Apple’s massive root access security flaw, Apple’s reaction to it, and what the internal repercussions at the company might be. Daniel catches Manton up on his ambition to ship MarsEdit 4 as early as next week!
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Links:
- Security Update 2017-001 – Apple’s official information page about the macOS root access bug.
- Leave the Password Empty – Innocuous-seeming advice in the Apple Developer forums about the root login vulnerability.
- Pure Frustration – Follow-up comment explaining the inspiration for trying to log in as root.
- Apple to Audit Development Processes – Reuters story includes a copy of Apple’s official statement of regret.
- lsbom – Man page for the little known installer-package inspection utility.
