ProBeat: macOS root vulnerability should be Apple’s wakeup call

OPINION: What’s worse than having a dead-simple password that anyone can guess? No password. To go with it, let’s add a username that anyone can enter. That’s exactly what happened to Apple this week: Anyone could log in to your Mac with the username “root” and a blank password.
Oh, and as long as you were on the same network, you could even break into Macs remotely — physical access was not required. Surely this was only for Macs that were running some ancien