[Year 12 SofDev] Apple programming goof

[Mark]

this might make your kids feel a bit better about bugs in their code...

'Like everything else on the iPhone, the critical crypto flaw announced in
iOS 7 yesterday turns out to be a study in simplicity and elegant design: a
single spurious "goto" in one part of Apple's authentication code that
accidentally bypasses the rest of it.'

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/gotofail/



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