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

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