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>Disclosure was on the 24th, today is the 29th. The patch had to be developed in-between

Apple didn't make the patch they just repackaged it. That's five days to write a dozen lines of script to update the shell. Every single GNU/Linux distro was patched the day of, get real.

>I felt it was 50/50 that they'd update it vs. remove/disable it.

Remove it for what ash/sh? Tim Cook doesn't know a megabit from a megabyte, let alone a shell. That pencil pusher doesn't care about his users, only the money. This was only patched for PR. Still no sight of it on the automatic updates list.



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