Comment by bawolff

6 hours ago

In 2008.

I don't think its wise to make current security decisions based on screw ups from almost 2 decades ago.

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petcat  6 hours ago

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.

  • cromka  5 hours ago

    > 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  2 hours ago

    > 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  5 hours ago

    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.