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> Two key U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Tuesday asked Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook to answer questions about the bug, saying they were “deeply troubled” over how long it took Apple to address the security flaw. honestly this just seems like a waste of time.
Reported an iphone lock screen bug and received nothing. Thanks apple.
Having ran a large bug bounty program before, I can tell you a few things could have happened here...
* Issue was mis-triaged, or deemed to be very low impact - Maybe it depended on a very specific set of circumstances that was not expected to commonly occur. Usually these get silently routed to QA to investigate.
* Issue was completely overlooked - Unlikely, but security@ is a ticket queue too. Sometimes a misclick happens, or a spam filter picks it up. For every valid report, you can get 100-1000 unrelated messages.
* Issue was already known - Not good to silently ignore, but if it was already reported and in the pipeline, it probably got closed as a duplicate. Companies don't like to discuss vulnerabilities that are being actively fixed.
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Has that not already been the headline a dozen times? Certainly Apple has deserved that scrutiny, but I was also waiting to see whether they'd do the right thing here.
On HN the Apple-related headlines that make it to the top are 80-90% how glorious Apple's closed source platform is and 10-20% how awful apple's dictatorship of their own app store is. I don't think it's true that we should not post critical articles just because Apple already "gets enough" by some standard.
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Seemed like a dubious claim, so tried to find a source and found this old article: Did the Forbes 400 Billionaires Really 'Build That'? https://www.cnbc.com/id/49167533 Trimming a lot: "United for a Fair Economy breaks down the Forbes list using a baseball analogy. It says - 35 percent of the list was born in the “batter’s box,” with a lower-middle class or middle-class background... - 22 percent of the list were bor…
If anything it’s intentionally misunderstanding the actual advantages from having connections. Gates did not directly inherit vast wealth. But, most people’s parents don’t know the CEO of IBM back when it was the computer company. That bottom 35% is a little doubious. Larry Ellison was put in that category, though he was adopted at a young age. Further, his adopted family had recently been wealthy which is a much bet…
Had Bill Gates gone to Seattle Public Schools at the time, its doubtful that he would have gained similar contacts or become notable at such an early age.
He also got a personal visit from an unnamed Apple executive.
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Most people on US Forbes top 500 came from poverty and / or other disadvantage.
Seemed like a dubious claim, so tried to find a source and found this old article: Did the Forbes 400 Billionaires Really 'Build That'? https://www.cnbc.com/id/49167533 Trimming a lot: "United for a Fair Economy breaks down the Forbes list using a baseball analogy. It says - 35 percent of the list was born in the “batter’s box,” with a lower-middle class or middle-class background... - 22 percent of the list were bor…
At least in the US, less than 35% of the population actually lives in poverty.
He also got a personal visit from an unnamed Apple executive.
Nice. Bit of a side point, but I feel that we should all give a shout out to the mum who clearly was the power broker for this to happen. She did a great job navigating the maze that was Apple's bug reporting pathways.
You know, I'm happy on some level for that individual. It seems like a great stroke of fortune. On another level, it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily "bless" random people like a deity or something. I also can't help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.
> it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily "bless" random people like a deity or something. Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :)) > I also can't help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part. It may be but so what? They could have done nothing, but…
I understood it as: how is it that education is a privilege?