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by 67726e 4720 days ago
> How is it a disgrace? You're making it sound like Apple meant for this to happen, this could've happen to any companies.

Well if Ibrahim is to be believed, Apple failed to reasonably handle his disclosure of the security flaws. Apple is not entirely at fault, but they surely failed to protect their users' data. Users trusted Apple to prevent this from happening, but they have failed. That is a disgrace.

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He created a bug in a portal of hundreds of thousands of bugs. That was not even two weeks ago.

I'd be surprised if someone had even looked at the bug until a few days ago. Then they did some investigating, determined it to be true and ran up the manager ladder till someone said shut it down.