The "zero day" is something they call a "ClickFix Attack"<p>Upon Googling "ClickFix":<p><pre><code> > "A ClickFix attack is a social engineering technique... It typically compromises devices by manipulating victims into copying and pasting malicious commands directly into system-level tools"
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I'm sorry, that's not a zero-day, that's idiocy that's as old as time.
We filed a bug report but the original maintainer seems to have dropped offline. The community's had some success in correcting bugs with low-level hacking, but it's hard to make progress without the source code.
words don't seem to mean anything anymore.<p>clickbait headline should be changed, not a 0-day.
Who in their right mind would install a Meta AI with near admin privileges?
"Normies" aka the average user on Meta. They have no concept of what "admin privileges" means and don't really care. I still have a hard time convincing my clients to use secure passwords. I have clients who were phished for substantial amounts of money and STILL don't implement proper security measures.
Almost everyone who is struggling with AI insecurity and is afraid of being left behind
No, most workers don't really say this in surveys and polling. They tend to hate LLM tools because it makes their jobs worse, nothing about being left behind.<p>The only people pushing the "left behind" narrative is SV + SF + VC since their previous narratives have failed to persuade the public (thank fuck).
We all fear the true answer to that question.
> Who in their right mind would install a Meta AI<p>I fixed it for ya
most people don't know or care what "admin privileges" even means, or why they wouldn't want ai to have them
almost every normal person
Normally I’m not one to blame the victims but, uh, yeah who in the world is dumb enough to trust Meta at this point?
“They trust me, dumb fucks”.
And before this gets flagged or downvoted or "he was young" or "he was joking" or "he was making a point: he was saying 'I could be anyone', not that he can't be trusted" answer me what other tech people say this, ever, along with all the other charges ("I'm going to fuck them [the Winklevoss twins] in the ear", "You can be unethical and legal and that's how i live my life haha", hacking Crimson reporters, and that's just at Harvard, let alone when Facebook became available to the public
Honestly, a lot of people start using this line of humor when their peers do. Add in that he was young, and this was before people’s private messages being released easily to the masses was common, Im not really surprised.
Yeah - I just went from +1 to -2<p>It is <i>clear</i> some of you are brigading. And I don't care if my comment 'breaks site rules'. It happens a <i>lot</i> here. I know you're from industry and you're brigading to protect your industry
> macOS has long provided a simple means for apps to handle dictation and transcription in processes that stay securely on the device<p>Not sure these guys realize that the quality and latency of those Apple services in MacOS is way lower than SOTA and not too many people use them because of that…
Maybe they should have spent the money used to buy its stupid name from a band on additional testing instead.
How is this a serious zero day if it requires local code execution to run?
I'm confused what the vulnerability is. Does macOS have some specific function for protecting key material, that it's unexpected that if you execute user-privileged code locally, outside of a sandbox, it gets full read access?
Is 12 hours to deliver a local privilege escalation fix not a good response time?
A zero day? Of course it does. It likely has many. Given the history of software, it's impossible to think it wouldn't.