Apple Security Blunder Exposes Lion Login Passwords In Clear Text 205
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from the whoops dept.
An anonymous reader writes "An Apple programmer, apparently by accident, left a debug flag open in the most recent version of its Mac OS X operating system. In specific configurations, applying the OS X Lion update 10.7.3 turns on a system-wide debug log file that contains the login passwords of every user who has logged in since the update was applied. The passwords are stored in clear text."
Great (Score:5, Funny)
now i can find out what my password is.
ive been resisting a reboot for ages!
malware (Score:4, Funny)
apple even ships their own malware.
Do you want to find the passwords of other users? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I wonder what the comment said... (Score:5, Funny)
//REMEMBER TO COMMENT THIS SHIT OUT SO I DONT GET FIRED
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING....
Re:malware (Score:5, Funny)
Typical Apple (Score:5, Funny)
Copying features from Microsoft [microsoft.com] products again.
Don't blame the one guy still working on OS X.! (Score:5, Funny)
All of his friends went over to work on iOS and he's been left to pick up the slack. ;)
Re:Don't blame the one guy still working on OS X.! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and I thought everybody was working in the legal department.