Perhaps, but as I have said, I am willing to give Mat the benefit of doubt here. It makes more sense to distrust the hacker than him.
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Apple Support Allowed Hacker Access to Reporter's iCloud Account
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I don't believe in ghosts either. I'll wait until I get some proof of this other than simply taking some guys word for it.
This smells like a well engineered attempt to damage and discredit. Every one is suspect here. The method appears to point to a(some) knoledgeable individual(s).
You haters are hilarious. Nothing has been verified. Please shutup before you make fun of yourself in case there is a retract.
In theory you are correct, but on the practical side of it, Applecare would end up provide less support to us, since one customer with this issue would take double time.
I believe the solution will pass by increasing more security steps, so you don't have to call AC every time this happens, but you can do it on your own pace.
Let's be fair. Unless you have proof of what happened, you can't say they followed these procedures. This and comments by many other do negate the accusation that Apple doesn't have something in place. But it is possible those rules weren't followed.
There are a lot of folks saying they didn't follow their rules and can't prove that claim, but no one has proven they did
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It's worse than that hacking use to also mean reverse engineering. At that time, cracking was the term used for black hat type games. Thanks to Hollywood and such hacking has become a nasty word, especially with the general public who lump white hat and black hat together
Exactly, we do not have enough information to know what has transpired, if Apple followed their internal policies or not and if those policies are adequate or not based on the level of service being offered.
Mat hasn't given us any information that makes it possible to formulate any kind of opinion on the subject yet.
Complete with his version of the story being released today.
Something tells me it will be full of stupid, bad careless Apple stuff. And he was just a victim 100%
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by his own admission he didn't. At least not of his computer. We don't know if the iCloud included device backups or just what was syncing through the service
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Says the victim. We really don't know what is meant by the term in this case.
The fact that he had years of work and no backups makes him at least partially responsible.
He's supposed to be a tech expert. What was he thinking?
Go back and read the whole thread. It was about his laptop, which they don't back up
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no they should not. Your data is your responsibility not theirs.
Umm.... Those of you who want some security for your time machine backups: http://iosafe.com/products-soloPRO-overview
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http://iosafe.com/products-soloPRO-overview
Get two of these. They won't die on you....
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Apple records support calls, so if this is true, they will be able to see exactly which employee failed to follow procedures.
If it's false, it will be extremely easy to disprove.
But if you use iCloud then your whole computer and all devices are at risk even if you don't store files on iCloud. Sounds pretty horrific to me. Sounds like a reason not to buy a Mac. I'm not saying don't buy a Mac, I'm saying its a reason against the Mac.
Looks okay to me. What should we be looking for?
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He is a former writer for Gizmodo...
From the article
The point of entry appeared to be his iCloud account which was then used to gain access to Gmail and then his and former-employer Gizmodo's Twitter accounts.
Buying a Mac doesn't have anything to do with your choice of using iCloud or not. And again, I don't see the link to the person you were replying to, since what does that have to do with government employees ?
Hmmm...
One wonders what he did beyond just appearing technically clueless in his blog to the anonymous 4Chan associated hacker?
It's one thing to log into someones account and change their passwords and redirect their website to some "we vandalized your site" brag page.
But it's still another to pursue a scorched earth "we wiped all your devices too" policy and actually deleting his google mail account.
This suggests someone he's had past dealings with who is seriously enraged.
There's a lot more we don't know about this story than we do not.
One wonders what he did beyond just appearing technically clueless in his blog to the anonymous 4Chan associated hacker?
It's one thing to log into someones account and change their passwords and redirect their website to some "we vandalized your site" brag page.
But it's still another to pursue a scorched earth "we wiped all your devices too" policy and actually deleting his google mail account.
This suggests someone he's had past dealings with who is seriously enraged.
There's a lot more we don't know about this story than we do not.
In a sense, I'm happy this has happened and gained this kind of media attention, being all over my Flipboard yesterday. I think Apple will now be hard pressed to add two-step authentication, much like the one in effect for Google accounts. As well as issuing new support guidelines. These kinds of accounts are so important, and focus so much on connecting personal data and private details, that anything less should not be acceptable.
Perhaps Apple can sneak such a feature into iOS 6?
After upgrading to 10.8, years of information moved from my computer to Apple's servers and my computer slowed to a snails pace. When I started turning off these storage links and those scary your information is going to be lost messages appeared, that is when the voice of Hal rang out in my head.
My person information in a hacker rich environment on purpose!!! Then if you try to get it back to where if came from, your computer, there are warnings about losing information. ARGH!!!
So what you're saying is that because of a spat that his former employer got into, he will forever more be anti-Apple, and nothing he writes can be taken seriously?
The key events that should be looked at are as follows:
-Honan owns several iDevices, linked to a single iTunes account
-Those devices, while still in Honan's physical possession are remotely wiped by persons at that point unknown to Honan.
That's it. Finito. Anything before or after is entirely irrelevant.
As long as those two points hold true (And the key one being the hacker not having links with Honan), then there's a security issue.
Maybe Apple are trying to make a really profound statement, asking us to backup regularly, and also carry those physical backups around all the time because there's no knowing when your device could get wiped and you'll be left with nothing. Just like that time they told me that I was holding my phone the wrong way.
Especially when Time Machine is built into the OS and all you need is an external drive for about $150. That's pretty embarrassing.