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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by monocasa on Monday April 02, 2018 @06:26PM (#16740004)
Shipping Mac OS so that anyone can just YOLO login as root?

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/how-stop-some...

Storing the full disk encryption password in plaintext on the disk?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208168

How do you explain these except for atrocious and trending downwards QC?

Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by Bud on Monday April 02, 2018 @07:14PM (#16740322)
I do not deny that those were both terrible, awful mistakes (and I'm upvoting you for correctly including them in this thread). I would note that they were both relating to what is (perhaps unfortunately, but them's the facts) a very minor product for Apple. And that they're both fixed. And that Apple's security overall is still unquestionably far superior to that of its competition. Ask anyone who has to administrate both Macs and PCs for a living (like me).

My comments above still stand.