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Comment by nmg

4 years ago

Thank you. Phrased perfectly.

It's an invasive restriction, cynically designed, poorly engineered and improperly managed, that impairs your ability to function.. masquerading as security.

macOS is my favorite OS, but I don't need to use it. I was so psyched reading about the new Macbooks, and I've had to walk all that excitement back now. I cannot invest in a computer that locks me out of my job if a cable gets cut by a maintenance crew in Cupertino.

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snowwrestler  4 years ago

If you point the request at localhost, the problem resolves. This means that a cable getting cut in Cupertino won’t matter. It is a revocation protocol; it fails open.

The problem today is that not that the connection to the server failed, but that it succeeded very slowly. The result was an accidental denial of service on the client.

It is a bug, and an easily fixed one at that.

  • tomxor  4 years ago

    This particular issue is easy to work around for technical users; the _problem_ is the philosophy that made it possible.

    This is the reason I can no longer use Apple computers - the continuous battle they are waging against the users freedom on all fronts - the anxiety of what they will do next to _my_ computer is too much.

    • jachee  4 years ago

      Good luck finding a suitable replacement. Microsoft does unpredictable things to Windows. Linux maintainers do unpredictable things to all sorts of things.

      Your only real recourse is to compile everything from source after a thorough review every time...

      ...or else trust someone.

      Sure Apple had a problem here, but there are so many other reasons to trust them over any other org that I can't in good conscience switch platforms, because there's so much more anxiety elsewhere.

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bnj  4 years ago

I agree that it’s security theater and a suspect implementation, but I was playing a game of “let’s imagine why someone might do this...”—

I’m wondering, suppose it was designed this way because part of the goal is to prevent the spread of malware, the fastest means of which is an internet connected computer. In that event, the feature only intrudes when the computer, by virtue of it’s internet connection, is a member of the threat class.

So... plausible?

  • nmg  4 years ago

    Apple built the computer; I exchanged money for the computer; now I own the computer.

    Apple does not own the computer.

    If Apple wants to own the computer, they can pay me instead.