>> Bizarre for a company that usually adhere's to high manufacturing standards.
That's more perception than reality. They're better than the cheaper low end commodity manufacturers, but so is Lenovo and Dell's higher end stuff.
Apple, however, is far from perfect in this regard.
I have one of those 2011 Macbook Pros that you might have heard about. I've already replaced my motherboard once to address the GPU issue, and it took a couple more months for the problem to appear again. I'm kinda stuck with it now because my AppleCare ran out, and I'm not forking out >$500 plus tax to replace a part on a 3 year old computer. I'm also not about to stick my motherboard in the oven to try to fix it either (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371908).
My guess is that from a PR perspective they might have worried that releasing the information without a definitive scope of impact would have led to days of wild panicked speculation in the media outlets, and userbase.
While there was still wild speculation, security was only one of many possible scenarios being discussed, and it was mostly treated like a regular outage.
I'm not saying this delay in disclosure was "right" (what if it had ended up worse in scope?), but I agree with sibling post (dave1010uk) that it seems to have worked out better for their brand.
There is a more fundamental problem here than the law itself. People who fail to understand any aspect of the internet, should not be allowed to legislate against it in any way. It's madness.
I dont watch hulu.com videos period. And i smash hard drives to pieces before throwing away old computers. I dont see how this would be possible. Maybe somebody I dont know somehow managed to get my login, sync it with chrome, and watched hulu.com? I find that highly unlikely... but I'll try to see if i can find a spot within my google account to see all the devices i have chrome synced with.
Bizarre for a company that usually adhere's to high manufacturing standards.