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That's pretty epic. Apple continues to make big, brave moral gestures (like when they yanked Facebook and Google's enterprise certs earlier this year, or killed long-term tracking cookies in Safari overnight). Makes me happy to be a customer. Hope they keep enforcing their own rules and protecting their users' privacy and security in this fearless manner.
So they installed without further confirmation a silent update that removes a silent installer? No irony?
My Macbook pro froze this morning...the mouse moved, but I couldn't interact with anything. After a few mins, I hard rebooted it, and it worked fine after that. I'm not sure if it was related to this update, but it's the first time that this has ever happened, so it's a little bit of a coincidence.
And why did Apple shut down the app regardless? Was it not properly patched? Did Apple not care?
Disturbs me somewhat that Apple has a way to silently push changes to laptops without user interaction.
Windows update does the same, no?
And why did Apple shut down the app regardless? Was it not properly patched? Did Apple not care?
My Macbook pro froze this morning...the mouse moved, but I couldn't interact with anything. After a few mins, I hard rebooted it, and it worked fine after that. I'm not sure if it was related to this update, but it's the first time that this has ever happened, so it's a little bit of a coincidence.
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Doesn't appear so, current XProtect version remains at 2103 which was released a couple months ago now.
I haven’t checked, but are you looking at the version of the binary itself, or the MRT signature files it uses
Perhaps it’s a staged rollout, but at least on my iMac there’s no sign of updated signatures.