Over the weekend, Apple pushed an update to a kernel extension exclusion list that broke ethernet for thousands of users. There was no notification of this update, it simply got pushed and installed, suddenly ethernet broke - as in, not even visible to the system because the ethernet driver (kext) was disallowed from loading.<p>So... yeah it&#x27;s a mistake, annoying. But we&#x27;re in some sense expecting much more privacy, security, reliability of our mobile devices than our desktop systems. And I think that&#x27;s an interesting shift in expectations.