[RedBloodedAmerican]

""Bugs like this require a simple glance over the code to notice and are long dead on other operating systems.… When we spoke to Apple on the phone about this issue, the security team had never even heard of the application, and burst out laughing at the simplicity of the vulnerability," said Archibald"

Interesting

[joesnuffy]

When you've swallowed the cult's line long enough you can only function in denial...

[MillerCreek]

I've spoken with a whole lot of "technicians" on the phone with computer whatnots and cable companies and I often know far more than they do. "Customer Service" workers are there to contend with answering the calls. Shouldn't even begin to anticipate highly, if even at all, intelligent comments from them. They're there to interact with issues like, "have you deleted your temporary internet files recently" and things like that, to answer questions similar to, "why do I keep seeing popups on my monitor?"

[glorgau]

I worked on a major Apple owned aqpplication that had one of the old ../../whatever flaws in a file open scenario. It was quite a hoot for the other engineers when we found it. Those sort of things happen. ;-)
As far as we know it was never exploited at a customer site. They didn't know, and we never told them. Management was informed just so it didn't look like we were layabouts.