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the latest version of Apple's Mac OS has a glaring security hole you can log into a Mac computer without a password just type root into the user name field and leave the password blank oops Apple says they are working on fixing the problem which in terms of security mistakes you could say this is a doozy the issue got public attention after a tweet by this software developer alerting Apple's support to the problem but in a blog post he says he wasn't the first to discover if the issue was also mentioned in a few places prior to his tweet including an Apple Developer Forum Sina independently confirmed that you do not need a password to log in to a locked Apple device with this root trick it could work on the first try or you may need to click on lock several times another security researcher tweeted a demonstration that it even worked after restarting the computer now until Apple fixes the problem there are a few ways you can fix it one way is that you can make an account with the username root and just give it a password how do you feel about apples mistake let us know in the comments I'm Bridget Carey and you can find the latest on this Apple security flaw at cnet.com