Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems

Re:Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems by wannacboatmovie on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @09:53PM (#42190441)

It's hard to keep selling you new iPads every year if they did that. They might have to replace the dollar bill dispensers with ordinary toilet roll in the Apple washrooms.

(Meta: hard to not notice every comment in this thread critical of sacred cow Apple is being mass downvoted as per usual.)

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Re:Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems by stephen_g on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:51PM (#42190688)

It's probably because the first bit isn't really true (iPads have a longer supported life than many Android tablets, for example I updated my 2018 iPad Pro with the most recent iPadOS 18.1.1 including this security fix earlier today). And given that the silly joke falls flat.

The iPad 5 in question from the OP supports iPadOS 16 and that last got a security update in August of this year. So if it hasn't got an update today then possibly the vulnerability was only introduced in iOS / iPadOS 17.

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Re:Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems by brookst on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @12:06AM (#42190979)

Meta meta: comments making vague complaints about other comments being downvoted, typically get downvoted.

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Re:Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems by saagarjha on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @11:07PM (#42190740)

I can assure you that the toilet paper is much more comfortable than dollar bills.

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