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

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () me com>]

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> 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
> >
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