On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 06:12:03 -0500, Edward Finnell wrote: >https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/11/28/apple-macos-high-sierra-guilty-of-really-stupid-password-bug/#421b3cd11d57 > >Yowee, anybody, anywhere can get your stuff. > Did I hear something similar about iOS, or was I just misreading another instance of this story?
Reminiscent of a time Sun inadvertently distributed a Solaris with a telnet server containing a magic root password. Sun leveraged this into removing all support for telnet server, which had always accepted passwords in clear. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN