Comment by petcat
7 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.
> 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.
> it should take at least a decade to regain any trust
Then as it has been 2 decades you should be all good right?
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.
I was responding to the OP saying "stuff like this is why I'm moving back to Linux". It's nonsense.
No, pulling up a bug from 18 years ago to argue against the fact that linux is secure is nonsense.
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