

In Safe Mode, a minimum set of system software and third-party apps are loaded, thus slimming down what’s known as your a ttack surface area until you’ve completed the patch. …you may want to learn how to start up your Mac in so-called Safe Mode, and to update from there. So: if you can only patch your display in a few days’ or weeks’ time because you have to plug your patched Mac into your vulnerable display to update it and assuming that you need go online to complete the update… We don’t know how to (or even if you can) download the Screen Display patch for offline installation later when you get home.

We’re guessing that if you’re on the road right now, travelling with your Mac, you might not be able to plug in to your Screen Display for a while yet, by which time some enterprising criminal might have worked backwards from the patches, or a proof-of-concept exploit might have been released.
