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Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed
From: Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:44:30 -0400
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>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] On Behalf Of Juha-Matti Laurio Sent: 10 June 2010 11:34 To: 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 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list._______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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Current thread:
- Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Juha-Matti Laurio (Jun 10)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed David Harley (Jun 10)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Dave Paris (Jun 10)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Dave Dennis (Jun 10)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Joel Esler (Jun 10)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Nick FitzGerald (Jun 10)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Joel Esler (Jun 11)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed David Harley (Jun 10)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Dan Kaminsky (Jun 11)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Joel Esler (Jun 11)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Randal T. Rioux (Jun 11)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Nick FitzGerald (Jun 12)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Joel Esler (Jun 13)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Rich Kulawiec (Jun 27)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Jeffrey Walton (Jun 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Juha-Matti Laurio (Jun 10)
- Re: Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 iPad owners exposed Joel Esler (Jun 10)