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Should you fear the latest Mac firmware vulnerability? Short answer: NO. Longer answer is still NO. As I said on the previous thread, this requires physical possession of your Mac to exploit the vulnerability, which always means they can pretty much do anything the invader wants to do with it. The possibility that a remote export is possible is, er, remote. — PING!

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Pedro Vilaca revealed the information without what is considered responsible disclosure in the security industry, in which an affected company or project is notified sufficiently far ahead of the release of information to allow them the potential to fix the problem. Apple isn’t always terrific about this, but looking at the list of credited, fixed security issues in its regular updates indicates it does accept and act on reports. In an update, he posted a feeble excuse about why he didn’t tell Apple first. ...However, some preliminary contact would have been nice to prevent tens of millions of Mac users from becoming targets before the full scope is understood and how easy it will be to exploit practically.

Wow, major cheap shot and Apple bootlicking. This guy finds something EVERYONE mised literally for decades, and HE'S the one endangering tens of millions of Mac users by notifying them of it without first notifying Apple? Oh yeah, because everything must go to corporate Massa first, and then that monolithic non-responsibility corporation will, of "it's" own initiative, when "it" decides to, without taking any responsibility and - heaven forbid - actually assigning any blame to any actual human beings, MAYBE let users know, depending on advice from it's massive legal team.

And he even let Apple know that it's precisely BECAUSE of this imperious, calculated behavior multiple times in the past that he decided it could not be trusted with this information, for fear it would bury it.

So a little bootlicker writer is paid to claim that, AT THE SAME TIME, this investigator (not Apple, never Apple) endangered tens of millions of people by not kneeling first to Apple Corporate, over something Apple claims is actually no threat at all, nothing to see, move along, the odds are that the Great Pyramid will start flying around on it's own before this flaw is ever exploited by anyone.

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Thus, of course, proving Pedro Vilaca's point about how Apple covers it's ass FIRST, and deals with any threats to users second.

I just got a message that I will get a free Windows 10 from Microsoft beginning on July 29.

I wonder why I was picked? It may be that I have a refurbished computer which now has had two Windows programs purchased for it. I guess they doubt I will buy another one plus this one may not last much longer.

The one I am using right now did not get the offer but it was bought new.