He only got names and addresses of developers. How could that have destroyed the iTunes store?
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He only got names and addresses of developers. How could that have destroyed the iTunes store?
The only information that is out there is your developer bank account (which should be separate from your real bank account). Simply ask the bank for a new account number.
I have a developer account, and I haven't seen anything bad so far.
I'm not defending Apple, but I hear about stories like this every week where some bank, credit card or other account is compromised. I check my credit card statements every month, and monitor my bank accounts. I'm ready to change account numbers at the drop of a hat. It's the sad reality we live in today.
Government agencies react like this, not cause its genius, or a masterstroke backup plan, its cause turning everything off is the only way they are sure its stopped. Its like you finding out you have a virus and pulling the internet cable our of your machine, then having countless committee meetings and status reports on where everyone is at finding the virus and updates on when the cable can be plugged back in.
Yeah it works, though its the sledgehammer approach. That approach does not work for companies providing a live service to its customers. Turning off a service is a last resort and not a plan. Right now there are some very high executives blowing thier top, and demanding explanations on how this has happened, and why the service is still down. You might think this is controlled, the reality is that is very very chaotic right now, and heads might role over this.
If Apple did infact have a contingency plan for this, the service would have been restored in a very short period, which would have looked like routine maintenance.
The bottom line is, the hack exposed a serious security flaw, and the service will not resume until its been patched, and tested.
You'd think they would have updated it to at least a Panther theme while they were digging around.
He only got names and addresses of developers. How could that have destroyed the iTunes store?
It couldn't. Ready my post.
Don't believe this guy is a researcher. Would a researcher deliberately show people's real names and email addresses? If my name was in that video I'd be screaming at YouTube to pull the video. The guy blurred out his bug reports except for the one he was exposing. Why couldn't he afford the data he stole the same courtesy?
Also, this guy now has 100,000 developer physical mailing addresses. Guess if you wanted a list of places to hit for Apple products, this would be a great place to start.
Wow almost 24 hours and still the same two items are the only green ones
Don't think in hours, think in days and weeks. I'd suspect it'll take 2-3 weeks to finish everything.
Bug Reporter site utilitarian, I can wait for killer aesthetics...
It reminds me of earlier days so maybe that's why it doesn't bother me. I'll be patient and wait for the new design. I'd rather have the components come back up with little design flair if that means we have something to use while we wait.
It reminds me of earlier days so maybe that's why it doesn't bother me. I'll be patient and wait for the new design. I'd rather have the components come back up with little design flair if that means we have something to use while we wait.
Something else must be going on that we don't know about! It can't take 2 or 3 weeks! Isn't Apple located in Silicon Valley?
Something is going on, just in the last 15 minutes, I started getting errors compiling iOS7 projects, and iOS7 frameworks (like SpriteKit) began disappearing from my projects.
Hopefully that's a sign some switch is about to be flipped back on, and perhaps a new iOS7 beta is on the way.
Meanwhile, I can't run my damn project though...grr. I really don't like having Apple remotely dick with my projects, if you want to phase out the current beta, fine, but give me a heads up and don't just leave me sitting there unable to compile or run anything until the new one is out.
Hopefully that's a sign some switch is about to be flipped back on, and perhaps a new iOS7 beta is on the way.
Meanwhile, I can't run my damn project though...grr. I really don't like having Apple remotely dick with my projects, if you want to phase out the current beta, fine, but give me a heads up and don't just leave me sitting there unable to compile or run anything until the new one is out.
What does that relate to?Something else must be going on that we don't know about! It can't take 2 or 3 weeks! Isn't Apple located in Silicon Valley?
I dunno, I wouldn't have thought so, but all of a sudden all my iOS7 projects (3 of them) are messed up and won't compile, and I didn't change anything in the projects. Who knows, could be something else, I'll keep investigating.
No idea how significant the breach is, but apple have advised that they are taking the opportunity to re-engineer a bunch of it.
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