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absurd MacOS High Sierra bug
- Subject: absurd MacOS High Sierra bug
- From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:27:54 +0200
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:03:29AM -0500, John Newman wrote:
> https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/11/28/2135236/macos-high-sierra-bug-allows-login-as-root-with-no-password
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This is not absurd, this is how the real world works.
Software comes with no warranty of any kind for a reason ;)
The ironic part is how this feature survived so long - password
bruteforcer would have caught the empty password in O(1).