Apple's iOS 9 Breaks VPNs

Posted by timothy on Monday September 21, 2015 @04:17AM from the but-I-love-my-central-posterior-nucleus dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a report from The Stack that researchers have discovered a crucial security problem in the latest version of iOS 9: it breaks VPN connections to corporate servers. According to the linked piece, "The flaw was first detected in the iOS 9 beta, and has not been fixed in the released version. Neither has the bug been removed in the current iOS 9.1 beta." The workaround might not be what you want to hear, either, if you've happily upgraded to the latest version: it's to downgrade to iOS 8.4.1.

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Re:Source control? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2015-09-21 04:34 · Score: 5, Insightful

Even if they had good reason to poke at this, or rewrite it from the ground up(because discoveryd was totally cooler and better than old-and-busted mdnsresponder, so why stop there?) what possible excuse is there for "This update breaks VPNs" to not be treated as an absolute showstopper? That's the sort of attitude that just doesn't cut it outside the realm of pitiful consumer crap.