absurd MacOS High Sierra bug

[John Newman]

On November 29, 2017 12:27:54 PM EST, Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:03:29AM -0500, John Newman wrote:
>>
>https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/11/28/2135236/macos-high-sierra-bug-allows-login-as-root-with-no-password
>> 
>>
>This is not absurd, this is how the real world works.
>Software comes with no warranty of any kind for a reason ;)
>The ironic part is how this feature survived so long - password
>bruteforcer would have caught the empty password in O(1). 

That's why I called it absurd ;).  How does something so
simple to catch fall through the cracks of an ostensibly
"large & professional" software shop?

Fucking embarrassing for Apple.
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