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The Zoom installer let a researcher hack his way to root access on macOS

theverge.com
630 points·by neodypsis·4 года назад·393 comments

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neodypsis
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
I looked at the trails (lists of passages) and wondered whether it would be cheaper to build these lists by clustering passage embeddings, rather than having an LLM construct them.
neodypsis
·2 года назад·discuss
It's been reverted now: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/9a0603b474804...
neodypsis
·3 года назад·discuss
Cool! I asked because there are many niche playlists on Spotify you can find for oldies, for example some very specific for the 60s, 50s, 40s, etc. Perhaps it could help her discover similar, but new, music.
neodypsis
·3 года назад·discuss
Very cool. Do you connect it to Spotify or to an MP3 collection?
neodypsis
·4 года назад·discuss
Zoom is already distributed for iOS in the App Store. Why not give users the option of installing the macOS app thru the App Store as well? I trust Apple more than Zoom and would prefer installing the latter's app from the App Store knowing it will comply better with best practices.
neodypsis
·4 года назад·discuss
I don't see how that would be the case here. Please note that the check is performed by the autoupdate software that ships with Zoom, not by the Zoom app itself.
neodypsis
·4 года назад·discuss
Can it tell it is being run inside a VM?
neodypsis
·4 года назад·discuss
Yes, and coupled with them taking months to address the issue makes me wonder if it is just carelessness or else.