Posted on 09/02/2014 3:42:43 PM PDT by SMGFan
In what amounts to a “don’t blame us” statement, Apple appears to be trying to shake off any culpability it might have in this weekend’s massive posting of hundreds of stolen photos of a female celebrities in various states of undress (Again — no, we’re not linking to them). The company is saying there was no data breach on iCloud or Find My iPhone… but only in the sense that not everyone’s photos were stolen.
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It begets several questions.
1) why are you putting nudie pics of yourself on a place like iCloud.
2) why do you feel compelled to be able to access nudie pics of yourself/spouse from your mobile device.
3) why do you believe that having nudie pics is even an acceptable practice, considering your status as a celebutard.
I might be a little more understanding if you were like Erin Andrews who had her space violated from the outside. But you took these photos yourselves, and you didn’t think that security might be a problem? I find the whole outrage over sex tapes and nude pictures that you made of your own free will (and with dubious intentions) that make it into the public domain without your consent, to be disingenuous at best, and a shameless attempt at publicity at worst.
In summary, I have zero sympathy for your predicament and only contempt for your attempt to shame those who accessed your account and then subsequently distributed material that you considered appropriate to make in the first place. The shame is yours.... not theirs.
“How about, the minute you take a pic of yourself naked... “
Don’t blame the victims. These folks were led to believe their accounts were safe.
Blame the ones who broke the passwords and hacked the accounts.
“Apple requires a very complex password. Must have been a helluva brute force attack.”
My understanding is that Apple allows one to recover their userid and/or password by answering a few security questions. Let’s see - mother’s maiden name, pet, ... - all likely publicly available, particularly on some social media account. I can’t comprehend saving anything that’s sensitive in any way to a “cloud” account, this will be a big lesson learned for a lot of people.
Why were the pictures made if not for dissemination? They are publicity pics.
How 'bout 1,2,3,4?
Some of these women look better with their clothes on I was very disappointed in Scarlet Johansson and Daisy Fuentes
I’d be more concerned the data was accessible at all in an unencrypted form. Passwords as you note are a weak form of security, even biometrics alone are weak as they’re just passwords when you think about it. Security is ultimately only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. This stuff should have been encrypted with a strong cipher client-side with a key administered solely by the user. Lose the key lose the data. Hack the server? Have fun downloading a worthless stream of indecipherable bytes!
So a these big stars getting top salaries did this to get to the top?
isheep love it
Encryption only works if you don’t have the password.
I learned from the first Die Hard movie that an executive’s password will always be the English translation of his Japanese last name.
Takagi = Red Castle
See?
That’s how Palin’s email was hacked. Those account recovery passwords are incredibly weak, especially when most of the answers can be found on your Wikipedia biography. I used to type random garbage in those until I got locked out of my online banking because I was unable to answer a random authentication that required one lol. So now I provide legit answers... using a simple cipher. Not the most secure but easily better than the name of my pet, etc.
How do you mean?
mainly because they don’t know that their photos are being backed up to the cloud. Take a picture, look at it then delete it, but forget that it automaticly made a copy and stored it in iCloud.
Even if the disk is encrypted it doesn’t prevent access because the disk is online. So they depend on application level encryption and the only key is the password. icloud doesn’t follow best practice on passwords making them easier to brute force. Assuming that is how the hackers got in. They could have used any number of other methods.
Hmmmm.....I guessed your 2nd story window wasn’t locked, walked in, drank a couple bottles of Petrus 1991, Swiped all your scotch and found some 8mm film.
But, I was guessing you were like so many others and certain laziness is fairly predictable.
So, no. It wasn’t a guess.
Uhn huh...do tell...
“Well if your password is your birthdate, or your kids name, or heaven forbid just the word “password”...
It wasn’t that easy, I think the password ended up being “Joshua”
>> They are publicity pics. <<
Agreed, at least for some of the pictures. These starlets are getting millions of dollars worth of free publicity. And the nudity won’t damage their reputations as “serious actresses” because they can say the pix were leaked w/o permission.
Jennifer Lawrence didn't need to leak a sex tape to reinvigorate her career. It's not like she's some C-lister.
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