themechanic

Even though this was a valid critical bug [1], you need to enable screen sharing and allow connections to and from port 5900 on your router for a remote person to be able to exploit this.

Any security conscious person would probably be using a VPN (Wireguard or Tailscale) to prevent something like this, in the first place.

> almost every time it’s to click “OK” on a stupid prompt that I’ve long since stopped taking seriously.

The line above tells you how seriously this person takes security prompts.