A security researcher uncovered a critical macOS vulnerability involving privilege escalation in Apple’s MallocStackLogging framework, which had gone undetected for nearly 20 years. The bug, tracked as CVE-2023-32428, was discovered in March 2023 and subsequently patched by Apple in October.
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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 28 Nov
Another problem that has been ongoing for many years. Are these just backdoors or what is with these OSs? BSD had problems, too, Imagine that! They have even found problems with Linux, lately.
Are the developers getting complacent?
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 28 Nov
Unfortunately, the development course of energy product (not only software) is dictated by regulations and internal (either corporate/entity or even decentralized foss teams) incentives which at the end aim nothing but profit (we all do). This approach, sooner or later is doomed to end up in the hands of bad guys...
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 28 Nov
I don't know if it always ends that way. There are enough good guys around to keep the bad guys honest, if they want to.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 28 Nov
Do you believe the proportion is on good guys' side?
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 28 Nov
Yes, I do. I don't think that there are more psychopaths, sociopaths and bad guys than there are decent people. My observation is that most people are decent and not bad guys wherever you go.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 28 Nov
🍀🤞
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