re Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Richard Perlman <rdp () yikes com>
> Date: June 9, 2010 11:01:16 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed

> Comment, for IP if you wish:
>
> This is a little bit like the anti-cell-phone group in Berkeley (CA, USA – noted Nuclear Free Zone) that distributed 
> posters warning of a “Radiation Hazard” if more cell towers were erected.
>
> I think Gizmodo summed this incident up fairly well
> Should I be worried?
> As far as your email address being leaked—net effect: spam!—this isn't anything to lose sleep over. And the ICC-IDs, 
> well, they probably aren't of much use to hackers either—though it might be possible to plug the ICC-ID into a SIM 
> cloner. (We've reached out to a security researcher for clarification.)
>
> But to play down this leak due to the relatively harmless nature of the exposed data is to miss the point: A thing 
> that customers had assumed to be private, and entrusted to AT&T, was inadvertently made public. The worry here is 
> less about your email address and ICC-ID than it is about a company that has all kinds of your personal data—your 
> SS#, billing information and the like—can't seem to keep its data safe.
>
> Any lessons? What can I do to safeguard against this?
> It's a good policy to use a secondary email address when possible. A lot of the people on Ryan's list used their work 
> email addresses—some from within the upper echelons of government and industry—which is generally a bad idea. But 
> again, this leak isn't so much about the exposed email addresses as it is about data security in general, so the only 
> lesson you could really glean from this is to trust no one, which isn't very useful at all, ha ha! Ugh. [Gawker]
>
> Full text at http://gizmodo.com/5559586/should-i-worry-about-the-apple-ipad-%252B-att-security-breach-probably-not
>
> Richard
>
> On 6/9/10 18:14 , "dfarber" <dfarber () me com> wrote:
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
> Date: June 09, 2010 05:50:20 PM
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed
>
> VALLEYWAG reports:
>
> "The breach ... 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....



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