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Re:Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard by BoorishBears on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:30AM (#15805046)
The post doesn't read like the user thought the tips constituted any type of security issue. They might have thought it was expected, but not well known, behavior.
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Re:Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard by dentemple on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:37AM (#15805070)
Yeah, as another person pointed out in this thread, this post really puts a kink in the whole "proper security channels" argument.

The macOS vulnerability was apparently a known thing, POSTED VISIBLY on Apple's own forums, and it reads as if the user got this "helpful tip" from somewhere else.

This is pretty nuts.

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Re:Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard by needcaffeine on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:33AM (#15805058)
It's really frightening knowing that this was probably well known to other players for months.

High Sierra went gold on September 25. Beta 1 came out in June, I think.

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