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macOS High Sierra's App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password [Updated]
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What, they like nice stuff. A mere $4 Billion campus wouldn’t do justice to Eddy Cue’s 15 year old custom made metrosexual shirts.
I'd be more concerned that I somehow allowed a malicious person to walk up to my computer that is logged into an administrator account and do things to it without my knowledge.
Just wow! What a total mess they have been and it's a shame!
I'm on ElCapitan, no desire to upgrade to Sierra (not even sure how this aging Mac would handle it, only reason why I never upgraded) But after seeing so many bugs, security problems with High Sierra..you couldn't pay me to upgrade to that.
Only downfall with sticking to the older OS 10.11.6 is the lack of patches, security updates now. That latest patch a few days ago was simply an updated patched for Safari.
I'm on ElCapitan, no desire to upgrade to Sierra (not even sure how this aging Mac would handle it, only reason why I never upgraded) But after seeing so many bugs, security problems with High Sierra..you couldn't pay me to upgrade to that.
Only downfall with sticking to the older OS 10.11.6 is the lack of patches, security updates now. That latest patch a few days ago was simply an updated patched for Safari.
So just asking the obvious question: if this is fixed already in the new betas, why is some Johnny-come-lately first submitting the bug this week?
Because often they tell Apple about it, and Apple ignores them.
Whereas if the flaw is made public, Apple is suddenly very motivated to resolve the issue.
The fact that they don't have a bug bounty for MacOS (why have it for iOS and not MacOS, I'll never understand) probably also contributes to this.
It’s not serious as it won’t damage groups of users. However when a password is required the minimum expectation is that it works. The user’s expectations are not unreasonable. Obviously we know that every system is hackable, but this issue - which is not the first with this OS - is unacceptable because it does not meet the most basic expectations and it also burdens the user. Even a basic, uncrypted, If password == storedpassword then login(), where storedpassword is on a text file, would’ve been better than this.
This is a non-issue on 10.13.3 (Public Beta). So if this really bothers you, you can essentially upgrade early.
Get a grip. Your sarcasm is not working.
I love my Apple products, but when stuff like this happens over and over again, I’m not defending them blindly like you
And meanwhile Microsoft has had to pull its Meltdown and Spectre updates because it was bricking AMD based machines. Before that anti-virus software, even Microsoft’s own Defender package were causing BSODs on many Windows machines after applying the Meltdown and Spectre patches. But that’s no big deal.
Plot twist - maybe Face ID has been built into all Macs with front facing cameras all along! Maybe High Sierra activated Face ID across the entire product line and instead of "any" password working, your Mac is instead scanning your face and letting you in!
Rolling out Face ID across all Macs this quietly takes real, true courage.
Rolling out Face ID across all Macs this quietly takes real, true courage.
I guess people asking for a password - requires by Apple’s OS - to work is something strange?
Since when the missteps of another company/individual matter in the analysis of own’s missteps?
Yeah, absolutely. iMessages in the iCloud......oh, wait.
While it's great that iOS works well for you, rewriting the desktop OS based on iOS would really suck as iOS is just way too limiting for a lot of people.
Non tech people: "ZOMG CRAPPLE IS HORRIBLE AND WE"RE GOING TO GET HAXEEED!"
Tech people: "Oopsy on Apples part, but no big deal since you'd need to be signed in as an admin in the first place."
EDIT: Also it appears all you can do is change if app/os updates install automatically, every other option requires you to reenter your iCloud password and won't accept just any password. This is pretty much a non-issue.
Tech people: "Oopsy on Apples part, but no big deal since you'd need to be signed in as an admin in the first place."
EDIT: Also it appears all you can do is change if app/os updates install automatically, every other option requires you to reenter your iCloud password and won't accept just any password. This is pretty much a non-issue.
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The person who filed the bug with Apple happened to stumble into it by accident. That doesn't mean someone else hadn't already done so, or that Apple internally found the regression that caused this, and fixed it without an external report.
I was just about to make the exact same comment. One of these mishaps by itself would not surprise me. To have this many glaring issues in such a short timespan makes me question if they are not merely accidental.
So when Apple had a bug that allowed root access via System Preferences, did nobody there think about doing some extensive QA on the entirety of System Preferences in case anything else is wrong with it?
Clearly not.
Clearly not.