petri

macplusplus said:

petri said:

StrangeDays said:

nouser said:

This flaw has been in the chips since the mid 90's.  These recent Apple patches are only applicable to fairly recent devices.  What about those of us who still have lots of older hardware in daily use?  I have a lot of very usable hardware that is unable to run the latest Mac OS / IOS.  I'm confident I'm not the only one.  Not pleased with this solution since I cannot use it on all my hardware. 

Have your old devices been exploited since the mid 90’s?

That’s missing the point, the exploit existed since the nineties but hasn’t been known about till now.  Now that it’s documented and “out there”, there will be people trying to exploit it (some of them just for the hell of it).  Exploit code will become a common and tradeable
commodity and unpatched older machines will be at risk.

Here are older Macs that can install MacOS High Sierra. If you still refuse to install the latest operating system on these machines then this is your call:

• iMac models from late 2009 or later
• MacBook models from late 2009 or later
• MacBook Pro models from mid 2010 or later
• MacBook Air models from late 2010 or later
• Mac mini models from mid 2010 or later
• Mac Pro models from mid 2010 or later

macOS High Sierra can be installed on:

• macOS Sierra
  
• OS X El Capitan
• OS X Yosemite
• OS X Mavericks
• OS X Mountain Lion

If the machines are in the obsolete category Apple legally is not obligated to support them, officially vintage and obsolete products are listed in https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624. Those machines can install a system version that includes Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper is available since OS X Mountain Lion. With Gatekeeper one can block applications from unidentified developers and the machines remain not exploited.

StrangeDays said:

nouser said:

This flaw has been in the chips since the mid 90's.  These recent Apple patches are only applicable to fairly recent devices.  What about those of us who still have lots of older hardware in daily use?  I have a lot of very usable hardware that is unable to run the latest Mac OS / IOS.  I'm confident I'm not the only one.  Not pleased with this solution since I cannot use it on all my hardware. 

Have your old devices been exploited since the mid 90’s?

robjn said:

I just changed the battery in my wife’s iPhone 5. Her battery was only lasting a few hours.

A couple of years ago she had some random shutdowns but then that problem went away - so it seems her phone was affected by this.

Now after using the new battery for a few days I ask her if her phone feels faster - she does not notice any difference in the speed.

If her phone had been randomly shutting down for the past two years - we would certainly have bought a new phone by now. So it seems to me that Apple’s policy of slightly slowing the phones with worn batteries is more likely to result in people keeping the device for longer. In our case we got two more years out of the iPhone 5 and will now get yet another year out of it with the new battery. Thank you Apple!

The simple fact is this:
The random shutdown problem is far more crippling than a slight slowdown!