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Re:iPhone privacy feature hiding Wi-Fi Macs has failed to wo... by FireBeyond on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:06PM (#38041852)
I don't understand this. By that logic you could go from HTTP to a new but buggy and flawed HTTPS (when that was in its infancy) and rather than that being considered a vulnerability, you could say "Well, everyone else is just using HTTP so they deserve a CVE too..."
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Re:iPhone privacy feature hiding Wi-Fi Macs has failed to wo... by teaearlgraycold on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:49PM (#38044465)
Should we not mark insecure protocols with tremendous numbers of CVEs?
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Re:iPhone privacy feature hiding Wi-Fi Macs has failed to wo... by eberkund on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:04PM (#38044586)
No, because the advertised additional security may cause people to do things that they would not otherwise have done had they not falsely believed the security claims on the newer protocol.
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