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Re:CVE-2024-54471: Leaking Passwords (and More!) on macOS by SoftTalker on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:36PM (#43429833)
MacOS is descended from NeXTSTEP which dates back to the 1980s. There is probably a lot of terrible code in there.

Edit: terrible from today's security perspective, I meant.

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Re:CVE-2024-54471: Leaking Passwords (and More!) on macOS by nmgycombinator on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:49PM (#43429958)
Take a look at it yourself if you're curious. The kernel code is open source: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
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