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Apple Pays Just $1,000 for Critical Safari Bug Despite Severity Score of 9.8
(www.macobserver.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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Cause fck you that's why.
I'm explaining - their whole reputation as some steel monster doing things well is not due to some competencies or proper organization, it's due to it being illegal to show and check their failure.
In a proper (like 90s) environment their bugs would be known to every script kiddy out there, and everybody would discuss them and laugh at Apple. Various alternative solutions and modifications to their products would too be widely available.
They have correctly determined that appearance is more important for their power than actual security, - because customers don't form customer associations and other institutionalized ways of double-checking companies' bullshit, and without that even if you don't buy all that Apple says, you still take their discourse as given.
And maintaining their appearances is what law does, you'll get in jail for informing too many people of what they do.
But, as always, the actual criminals usually are informed.
It's the same with Google, MS and such.
In the computing world historically customer associations and such were not a thing (I mean, there existed such websites, but they were somewhat tied in feel and function to web directories and indie web news, so they mostly died out), and reputation in the wild was, because social media platforms were not a thing, and big media, while horizontal talk and gossip were.
Which is why making it illegal to spread factual information of their vulnerabilities and means to confirm it has effectively killed such feedback - reputation doesn't spread without confirmation.
So - customers unionize, because tech workers still think they're gonna be bosses in the new ancap world, and thus don't. I'm ancap since the time when that was more hated than neo-Nazis, and I've chosen that ideology consciously when I actually could think rationally about political and social ideologies, and they are not building anything of the kind.
For the post subject itself - they don't care if it ends up on the dark web. They don't lose anything significant.