Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ...
by ZenoArrow on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @03:46PM
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You may say so, but really the level of incompetence of not setting a password for a root account is pretty high. The fact that someone reported it in a way you don't agree with shouldn't distract you from the fact that this highlights a serious oversight.
The main question that should be asked is, how did this get overlooked? How is it that your average website has better password security than the OS of one of the richest tech companies in the world?
To be fair to Apple, Microsoft had similar issues back in the 1990s. Perhaps it takes a string of security blunders for some tech companies to take security seriously.
The main question that should be asked is, how did this get overlooked? How is it that your average website has better password security than the OS of one of the richest tech companies in the world?
To be fair to Apple, Microsoft had similar issues back in the 1990s. Perhaps it takes a string of security blunders for some tech companies to take security seriously.