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conservaphobe

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1. Apple fucked up.

Tue Sep 2, 2014, 09:04 AM

Sep 2014

Apple appears to have fixed a bug that some have speculated could be the possible source of this weekend's massive online leak of celebrity nude photos.

The bug, known as "ibrute," appears to have been first noted on the social coding site Github. It allowed hackers to access an individual's iCloud data by exploiting a weakness in Apple's "Find My iPhone" service, according to Engadget.

The problem was that Apple's service didn't employ so-called "brute force protection," which meant that anyone who wanted to break into a person's iCloud could repeatedly enter a large number of passwords without fear of being locked out, according to The Next Web.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/01/icloud-bug-fixed_n_5748642.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

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So how did Hackers get pictures from 101 Celebs? [View all] Savannahmann Sep 2014 OP

Apple fucked up. conservaphobe Sep 2014 #1

Impossible, Apple products are perfect. nt tridim Sep 2014 #3

LOL! Fawke Em Sep 2014 #6

Any device connected to a network is automatically imperfect. conservaphobe Sep 2014 #7

You 'honestly believe' without a shred of evidence. randome Sep 2014 #2

Speculation and Government Agency Blaming MineralMan Sep 2014 #4

Not that it negates or diminishes your point in any way, but I thought the Russian hacker thing djean111 Sep 2014 #5

It is, but everyone treats it as truth. FSogol Sep 2014 #9

Apple appears to have found and fixed the bug in this case, but.. IDemo Sep 2014 #8