Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed

["Randal T. Rioux" <randy () procyonlabs com>]

I think the bigger issue is the embarrassment caused by being outed as 
someone who actually purchased an iPad :-)

Randy


On 06/11/2010 10:41 AM, Joel Esler wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Good points.
>
> OMG the email addresses for iPad owners were exposed!!!
>
> Oh, you mean the email addresses that these people use, on the
> /internet/ all day every day?
>
>
> On Jun 11, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
>
> > On the one hand, privacy operates on a completely different wavelength
> > (specifically, "the worst _has_ happened", instead of "the worst
> > _could_ happen"). On the other, people are pulling things out of their
> > butt to justify an extreme *security* response to what is pretty
> > obviously a low grade security vuln.
> >
> > Believe it or not, this is a good thing. After the ridiculous
> > (ongoing!) overreaction to the Google wifi beacon capture bug, I was
> > wondering if privacy overreactions had any limit. Apparently they do
> > -- even the lamest reporter will respond to "OMG MIKE BLOOMBERG HAS AN
> > IPAD" with "...so?".
> >
> > Sure, *we* get dragged into the mess, but heh.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:26 AM, David Harley
> > <david.a.harley () gmail com <mailto:david.a.harley () gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> >     OTOH:
> >
> >     Apple's worst security breach, or a great big hyperbole?
> >     http://www.sophos.com/blogs/duck/g/2010/06/10/apples-worst-security-breach/
> >
> >     --
> >     David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP
> >     ESET Research Fellow
> >
> >
> >
> >     > -----Original Message-----
> >     > From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org
> >     <mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org>
> >     > [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org
> >     <mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org>] On Behalf Of Juha-Matti Laurio
> >     > Sent: 10 June 2010 11:34
> >     > To: funsec () linuxbox org <mailto:funsec () linuxbox org>
> >     > Subject: [funsec] Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000
> >     > iPad owners exposed
> >     >
> >     > "Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach
> >     > has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military
> >     > officials, and top politicians.
> >     > They-and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled
> >     > tablet-could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
> >     >
> >     > The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee
> >     > lost an iPhone prototype in a bar,
> >     > exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a
> >     > collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes
> >     > thousands of A-listers in finance,
> >     > politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet
> >     > Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein
> >     > to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House
> >     > Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised."
> >     >
> >     > http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-
> >     > ipad-owners-exposed?skyline=true&s=i
> >     >
> >     > Juha-Matti
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