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Lol Apple 

Siri is also a worthless assistant, compared to either Alexa or Google assistant. 

Whether those others are more feature capable, anyone who sticks a microphone connected to Amazon or Google near themselves has some seriously poor judgment or ignorance about what’s really happening. 

rcfa said:

WiFi access doesn’t buy much, particularly if you use the router to limit which MAC addresses are allowed access.

At least where I’m at, I consider WiFi almost equivalent to the public internet, security must be enforced at the individual device level (NAS, computer, printers, etc.)

If someone having access to the WiFi password creates more of an issue than stolen bandwidth, you have much bigger security issues than these bulbs.

Spoofing the MAC address is extremely easy. Some people also think using the "hidden network" feature is helpful. It's not at all.

I have LIFX bulbs (not this specific one, but their multicolored LED ones). For me, their general flakiness in connectivity is as big of an issue as any security problems.

The Internet just gives voice to those who want to engage in faux outrage.

All of the following can be true:

1. Apple was informed of the bug.
2. Some people at Apple were aware of the bug.
3. Some people at Apple were not aware of the bug.
4. When the right people at Apple who are responsible for fixing such bugs became aware, they shut the service down temporarily.
5. When the people at Apple responsible for fixing bugs release a fix, the bug will be fixed.
6. People can actually get through life without losing their shit over everything and just move on.

Or...

1. People can just run around with their hair on fire yelling Tim Cook should be fired.

I think we know where people stand at this point. 

applejakes said:

Apple only spent $8.2 billion this quarter on buy backs after spending an average of $21 billion the last 3 quarters.  Could they be stockpiling money for a purchase?  If not it was a gross misuse of cash to not throw a huge amount at buy backs this quarter.  Something along the lines of $25+ billion.

Apple has pretty much never used its cash for buybacks. It has issued low yield bonds to fund them.

That's a pretty bad bug. Not empty-root-password level, but pretty bad.