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It's becoming quite a chore to keep your computer and online accounts secure. I'm in the industry; anyone who is not is probably a babe in the woods these days.

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What a delightful idiom. I had to look it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babes_in_the_Wood

Actually this demonstrates the opposite - this vulnerability has just been patched for half a billion people with no effort on their part.

Apple still hasn't released a fix for OS X...

Do you presume they won't?

/facepalm

That's a totally unhelpful comment. You imply that you know something that should be obvious and you think it's more helpful to be condescending than to contribute what you think.

The issue is that Apple's security engineers must have realized that there was a good chance someone would reverse engineer the patch, and from there find out the OS X is also vulnerable.

The patch doesn't need to be reverse engineered to discover that - the documentation alone and a quick test is enough.

The unknown factor which makes rlu's comment so ignorant, is that we don't know whether the vulnerability is already known and being exploited.

If so, then not delaying the iOS patch is the correct call.

As if your question was any better.

The difference between your comment and the conversation you have interjected it into is that you are being unhelpful and insulting on purpose, whereas there is room to resolve misunderstanding in the former case as you can see from the followup.

Thanks for showing us what kind of person you are.

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