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At first, the Twitter user who publicised this flaw was criticised by some people, who considered his tweet to be “irresponsible disclosure”, because it told the world about a problem that it might have been better to tell Apple about privately first so the hole could be closed and then announced.
But others soon realised that this was not a brand new discovery – indeed, it had been discussed more than two weeks ago on Apple’s on support forum.
Apple’s official policy of saying nothing about security issues until a fix is out meant that there wasn’t much to go on once the news broke, except to assume that the company was frantically coding up a fix…
…and, fortunately that turns out to have been true.
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