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A better analogy would be "if the lending bank left the door to your new house open..."

Other than buy an Apple product, the users did nothing intentional to undermine security.

Since this is a subjective argument, based more on historical instances of "responsible disclosure" and not law, I'm gonna lean in this case of it being Apple that failed

They built the entire "walled garden" without getting outside help. They want the control, they have billions of dollars, can hire whatever talent...

Failed to spot a password-less root login issue.

People need to know today to be even more cautious about using Apple gear in public places or around plain ol' tech jerks that like to fuck with people for a gag.

Society has no legal or moral obligation to make sure Apple stays in business.



Exactly.

Responsible disclosure is an interesting concept. How does this kind of disclosure make sure that the public knows about a company's track record of vulnerabilities, if everyone is under NDA and the company has no obligation to ever publicize it?

Now, if the reseacher could give a grace period, that's cool, but there MUST be a deadline by which stuff goes public. Hopefully the company fixes it and issues a postmortem first. If not - too bad!




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