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Re:Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to Ne... by yots on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:52AM (#20755542)
Yes, to some extent people should be worried about apps potentially containing exploits, but then again they should be more worried about 0-days than a known vulnerability.
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Re:Apple Accidentally Unpatches Vulnerability, Leading to Ne... by oarsinsync on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:44AM (#20756393)
> A zero-day (also known as 0-day) vulnerability is a computer-software vulnerability that is unknown to, or unaddressed by, those who should be interested in mitigating the vulnerability (including the vendor of the target software)[0]

Why should a publicly known unpatched vulnerability be a lesser concern than something that you don't know exists?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_(computing)

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