Re: Orphaned CodoPods are found in Apple software

Wolf Greenblatt wrote:

On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 08:07:20 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:
 

Three million iOS/macOS apps were vulnerable for a decade, and Apple didn't
even care to think about backing up their own claims of safety & security.

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I and others have made clear that this is not in Apple's court, and you
have admitted that you don't understand 3rd party toolchains and code
source, but you keep banging the same drum.

 While it's clear I don't understand how Apple could have allowed this hole
in their ecosystem to exist for a decade, what I do very clearly understand
is that Apple's safe & secure ecosystem claims are shown to be unsupported.
 Why does Apple say their system is safe & secure when obviously it's not?

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