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0 pointsazernik8y ago0 comments

This is kind of a weird corner case; OSX tries really hard to hide the UNIXiness of its system, including the special nature of the username "root". So I can easily someone not thinking to test it out super thoroughly

A lot of security vulnerabilities are of this type: "let's do crazy shit X that the system was not built for and see what breaks." I'm sure this will be in their test suite now though.

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ridgeguy8y ago

Thanks, appreciate your reply.

Maybe Apple should spin up a group of 7 - 14 year-olds to add to their test suite input. They might be better at coming up with crazy shit X that might break things.

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