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... And means that others can utilize this to cause damage.

The idea of responsible disclosure is to minimize harm for you, the user. Not to minimize bad publicity.

In a case like this, I think it would be best to maximize the bad publicity. Bad publicity is the minimum Apple deserves for a bug like this. In my idea world they'd get a lot of bad publicity, and a significant financial penalty.

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