[otterley]

I think you're using the word "malicious" when maybe what you mean is "irresponsible."

Please refer to the very top of the thread where I try to provide a reasonable and much more likely explanation behind what's going on.

[aaaaaaaaata]

Classic debate about whether being stupid or incompetent is the same as having ill intent.

We're still the ones being hit by a bus.

[otterley]

There’s no debate, unless you truly believe that intent should play no role whatsoever in how we judge actions, in which case, you disagree with the vast majority of post-Enlightenment society. I don’t think you would like living in a world in which strict liability made every mistake a criminal act.

[voakbasda]

I think Apple is neither stupid nor incompetent, leaving the third option: they made a choice to do harm, if only by choosing to do nothing.

[otterley]

There’s no evidence that they chose to do nothing. Again, they are probably working on it right now and we should not be surprised to see a backported fix in the coming weeks. There is already a long history of them doing just this; why do you think this time it’s different?