points by LoganDark 1 day ago | 0 comments
This is a legacy BSD store that macOS inherited. Apple has their own security stack that already responded to the incident within 2 hours in most cases, which means all first-party and most third-party apps were already covered. They seemingly just didn't have a mechanism to update the legacy BSD store out-of-band, which is more of an oversight than "poor work".
[–] thenewnewguy 1 day ago
[–] LoganDark 17 hours ago
> Apple created and designed the update system for their operating system from scratch. The fact it doesn't include the ability to update a security-critical file quickly is entirely their fault.
Sure. It's not their fault for failing now to use a capability that doesn't exist, though. I feel like the difference is lost on some people, but they're already in this situation.
Most (if not all) of the popular BSDs managed to ship the update ages ago. I would expect a trillion dollar company like Apple to have better and more thoughtful engineering than random volunteer projects.