Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

It's been known for just under a month, since five days after OS X Lion was released, so that interpretation of his statement seems incorrect.



In the interest of expedience, let me be blunt: very few security researchers give a shit about how OS X Server uses LDAP.

We're all pretty busy lately, too.

(-2. You guys are funny. In case it matters: I'm not being snarky. They really don't).


> This looks both real and a pretty serious issue (I wonder how it went by almost a month without getting picked up by the security community).

Followed by:

> Not many people in the security community use Mac servers in such a way that they need LDAP, and of those people, very few are running Lion on their servers.

Therefore, we see that Mr. Ptacek thinks "it went by almost a month without getting picked up by the security community" because "Not many people in the security community use Mac servers".




Consider applying for YC's W25 batch! Applications are open till Nov 12.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: