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Apple Security Blunder Exposes Lion Login Passwords In Clear Text

Posted by samzenpus on 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."

3 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Absolute garbage! by HeavyDDuty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    pathetic.

  2. Re:What is that sound? by tsa · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You are wrong my friend. It's your disbelief that makes you see us sitting down but in reality we do no such thing.

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  3. Re:Absolute garbage! by mark-t · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There is not a single reason not to use Gamemaker.

    I might suggest that your endorsement might have given several people a reasonably compelling reason not to use it.

    If you sincerely are advocating that product, you may want to consider altering your sales pitch so that you don't sound so much like a snake-oil sales vendor. Otherwise, you just sound like a raving lunatic.

    Of course... if that was your intent. Carry on. Expect to be downmodded, however.

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