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points by bawolff 1 day ago | 0 comments

In 2008.

I don't think its wise to make current security decisions based on screw ups from almost 2 decades ago.

Well that "screw up" was so egregious that it should take at least a decade to regain any trust.

I don't really care one way or another. I use Linux and I use macOS. But I'm not naive to think the security is any better in one or the other.

[–] cromka 1 day ago

> Well that "screw up" was so egregious that it should take at least a decade to regain any trust.

Do you use macOS? Because if you did, then how did you recover from them allowing anyone to straight-up log in as root without password? And then mess up the fix for that bug? That wasn't 2008, that was 8 years ago.

[–] alt227 1 day ago

> it should take at least a decade to regain any trust

Then as it has been 2 decades you should be all good right?

[–] fg137 1 day ago

Security practice was generally very, very bad two decades ago, by today's standards, across the industry.

I don't see the point of being so fixated on that.

[–] petcat 1 day ago

I was responding to the OP saying "stuff like this is why I'm moving back to Linux". It's nonsense.

[–] alt227 1 day ago

No, pulling up a bug from 18 years ago to argue against the fact that linux is secure is nonsense.

[–] cromka 20 hours ago

And yet you never responded to my "login to macOS as root without password" argument.

That's convenient!

[–] simondotau 1 day ago

Somehow I doubt many people will be saying that about eMudhra a decade from now.

[–] baobabKoodaa 1 day ago

Two decades

[–] efficax 1 day ago

i think you mean almost 20 years ago old man

[–] bawolff 1 day ago

I edited my comment