This stuff is so amateur though I don't think it is being discovered and handled by security guys. It's just some dev that is annoyed that the lock screen doesn't have total focus which is annoying and insecure and the kid of shit you'd see in the 90s

An interesting comment given that Apple as closer to infinity resources than anyone else.

Indeed, infinitesimally closer ;-)

Who can respect a vendor that assigns engineers to work on the animated poop icon instead of basic security?

contrary to what you may believe, some people need to work on content and should not be touching security. it's absurd to expect apple to fire all their non-security related staff and replace them with a whole organization of engineers that only work on basic security.

I do agree that apple has had a ton of problems in this area and needs to work on it, but this example is very played out and boring.

Yes because I'm sure those same people are also able to work on security.

Someone made the decision, this year we will hire X number of security engineers and Y number of poop animators. Ultimately that guy is Tim Cook.

You can't just hire arbitrary numbers of security engineers. These positions are difficult to fill. There's a good chance that Tim Cook wanted to hire more security engineers than was possible.