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From the Author in the Comments "In Esser's original post revealing the vulnerability, he said, "At the moment it is unclear if Apple knows about this security problem or not.""

So basically he just released it without disclosure. He claims reasons (see parent post), but its still kinda ick..

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Just giving the benefit of the doubt here, a lot of the time it's unclear if your disclosure even made it to the right people in a company or not. No response is the norm for security disclosures, as is claims of "we didn't get this", even if you have a receipt for their ticketing system that says they did. I've sometimes spent far longer attempting to contact a company than doing research into something that seems to be a problem.

Stefan is not just some random guy on the Internet. I can assure you the relevant folks at Apple know him and most likely he knows them.

oh, well as long as you can assure us of that orthogonal point, I guess it's all good mr anonymous internet person

It's easy to prove. Just go look at the number of iOS and OSX security fixes attributed to him. Or you can go do a simple search on any reputable site posting security info and you'll see him all over it.

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