[kevkrom]

A lot of threads going around about these issue. This a pretty even-handed analysis that points out the dangers, but isn't as, um, click-baity about it.

Practice good security and you won't get hit by this. I would suggest not plugging in any peripherals that you haven't already been using and have not loaded out to anyone until the patch comes, however.

[kevkrom]

Note that the peripherals issue is also limited to Thunderbolt-based items. I actually don’t have or use any of them (all my devices are USB), so I’m immune from that vector, at least.

[discostu]

Pretty much the same reasons I don’t worry about exploits on the PC. The biggest security threat is always the user, don’t be dumb and everything will be fine.

[kevkrom]

Apple ping, SM.

[dware]

Practice good security and you won't get hit by this.

I've never understood how people don't get this. As for Mac exploits, I'm rather enjoying them. Lol. I remember YEARS ago, MAC users gloating about the fact that they were home free and MAC was sooooooo much better because there were no virii / exploits, etc. that could touch a MAC. I always said, that was because MAC users made up a very, very small percentage of PC users. If you were to write a virus or figure out how to use an exploit to mess with a PC, you would want to target the largest audience possible, right? Lol. And here we are.

[Swordmaker]

As I said when these security vulnerabilities came out this week, the average user had nothing to really worry about. This article confirms that judgement. — PING!

Apple Security Ping!

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[zeugma]

I’m thinking that EFI should have a way to boot sans “extensions”. I believe that EFI is better than BIOS in general, but one would think this kind of thing would be guarded against. Then again, perhaps a ‘clean boot’ option might raise other issues. I wouldn’t be entirely surprised by that.