absurd MacOS High Sierra bug

\0xDynamite dreamingforward at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 11:25:43 PST 2017


Speaking of Big-O notation.  Can anyone give me an example of
something that is O(0)?

Marxos

On 11/29/17, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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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