Why are you getting involved in this? This is not your argument! You are one of those people who feel as if they have to prove something or they will feel meaningless. I'm sorry you have this problem. These two users worked out their problems already. Let it go yourself! You are just trying to start up another fight and keep this insanity going on forever. Learn to let things go. You don't have to comment on everything you see! Not everyone wants to hear your opinion believe it or not.
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Apple Confirms 'Meltdown' and 'Spectre' Vulnerabilities Impact All Macs and iOS Devices, Some Fixes Already Released [Updated]
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Your account here could arguably be considered social. In fact, most malware is interested in your data, not your computer.
What type of workload do you have that makes you believe patching would undermine the performance?
So let me get this straight. I have to update my iPhone 7+ to iOS 11 to get this fix and at the same time my iPhone will purposely be slowed down or remain on iOS 10 with this vulnerability and have the fastest user experience.
You can update. High Sierra works fine (well, no worse) on machines with spinning drives. You may be better off, since there are still some wrinkles with AFS.
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It’s not “purposely slows down.” That’s a side effect. But the speed difference on an iPhone should be negligible. Just don’t jailbreak.
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He uses it to write newsletters for the Ted Kaczynski fan club
You also should let this go. There is no need to keep these mindless arguments going on for eternity. That user apologized for his potentially inaccurate wording, why can't you let it go at that. Just end this ridiculousness! And put it to rest! Maybe I'm not a genius when it comes to computers, but I know how life works, and this ain't going nowhere.
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Thank you for confirming that.
Forgot to mention: am not sure my aging Airport Extreme will work with High Sierra, I tried upgrading to later versions of Sierra and I lost internet access for the house which is a necessity. I also tried connecting a mesh wifi system to it and that did not work either.) Will have to get both when I am ready to buy another Mac (not for at least 12-18 months if things stay put.)
The os should work fine with any AirPort Extreme. Something else must be going on.
In my house I have four airports set up, ranging in generation from ancient to “most recent.” No connectivity problems with high Sierra as I move from room to room.
There are no compatibility issues with High Sierra and Airports of any age.
I am not sure what is up, but I've had to erase and restore this iMac multiple times over the last 18 months. Probably some kind of corruption due to an old back up or something.
Thanks for responding.
@chrfr - thanks.
I'm in the same boat with an old friend and curmudgeon of a university professor. He has various programs he absolutely will not part ways with that only run on MacOS 10.6.
I'm currently in the process of testing VirtualBox and Parallels as guest OS environments to sandbox a version of 10.6 to run those old programs. Running in parallel are my attempts to get him to move everything else he can up to at least El Capitan. But his home Mac Pro (tower) 2009 still runs just fine in terms of physical operation.
Both he and I are unhappy with the way Apple has been treating older machines and OSes. Especially when a Windows machine that old is getting at least a Windows 7 fix rolled out to it.
Isn't it a PowerPC G4? If so, it has speculative execution and speculatively loads the cache on accesses prior to determining page faults, so it would be subject to the spectre cache side channel attack.
So for those like myself who still use iPad 2, does this mean the vulnerability will not be addressed?
Apple should be patching iOS 9. They were selling the iPad Mini 1 and iPod Touch 5 well into the middle/end of 2015. I doubt it will happen. There are a lot of iPad 2's in my family!
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Me as well. iOS 11 is bad enough on my Pro 10.5, Not letting it near my SE.
Can't seem to find any information online nor can I find anything about the unsupported OS Yosemite. According to a security expert on Bloomberg the two biggest threats to the average computer user (from Meltdown & Spectre) are one in which a person needs physical access to your computer and the other being a broswer exploit.
So if and when Apple updates Safari, does this mean that the only major threat from this chip vulnerability will be if an attacker can gain access to your physical device?
I can't help but think that Timmy is rubbing his hands in glee with all this playing into their hands.
All the nagging, trickery/deceit, and enforced prohibition against any but the latest iOS version couldn't drive people to accept the crippled usability, but now there's probably a drastic spike driven by such a potentially large security issue...
Obviously it's absolutely appalling that Apple don't provide basic fixes for (or allow installation of) even the most recent previous iOS iteration, and of course the crippling of both software and hardware in the current/latest.
Spectre on my High Sierra. Latest version from App Store with updates.
3.3 GHz Core i5
char * secret = "The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage.";
Version from here works 100% on MacOS
https://github.com/crozone/SpectrePoC
I tested myself because I did not believe it that is Spectre bug unifixable.
Here is a gallery in comments where Spectre 2 works .
With or without patches (all possible operating systems) :
https://gist.github.com/ErikAugust/724d4a969fb2c6ae1bbd7b2a9e3d4bb6
My deepest condolences to Intel.
3.3 GHz Core i5
char * secret = "The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage.";
Version from here works 100% on MacOS
https://github.com/crozone/SpectrePoC
I tested myself because I did not believe it that is Spectre bug unifixable.
Here is a gallery in comments where Spectre 2 works .
With or without patches (all possible operating systems) :
https://gist.github.com/ErikAugust/724d4a969fb2c6ae1bbd7b2a9e3d4bb6
My deepest condolences to Intel.
Sierra and El Capitan will receive fixes. Anything older (including Yosemite) will not.
Yeah, the more I realize the impact of this, it could kill Intel. Is Intel “too big to fail”?
This suggests to me that anyone that was thinking of buying a new computer or phone should now wait until this bug is properly fixed in hardware. So, no hardware sales for Apple in 2018 for any of their products.[/QUOTE]
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Damn. I was gonna upgrade to an iPhone 8 Plus next week. Should I really wait until a new iPhone comes out?
I thought the cpus in most phones weren't as badly affected as laptop/desktop cpus.