Of course what fool 'high society' person would use their own email address anyway? Isn't part of being in the 'upper crust' include people that monitor your email for you?
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Email Addresses and SIM Identifiers of 114,000 AT&T iPad 3G Users Exposed
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So what!
This just exposed email addresses. It's not like it exposed credit card numbers, medical info, drivers license numbers, or other proprietary info.
Jeez....like we couldn't guess Michael Bloomberg's email address anyway.
This just exposed email addresses. It's not like it exposed credit card numbers, medical info, drivers license numbers, or other proprietary info.
Jeez....like we couldn't guess Michael Bloomberg's email address anyway.
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Big deal. I am probably on that list. What is the worst that can happen. Have to change my email if I get a lot of spam. OK easy to do. I am more worried that my AAPL has dropped nearly30 points since April 23rd. That is a big deal.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7)
Ouch!
Is there really anything that can be done with this info?all I can think of is a spamfest on the email accounts.
I agree, but man, I'm sure Steve is pretty pissed right now.
I see you noticed that too. If you went by the title and lead in on this story from Gawker it was the iPad and Apple's fault these files where hacked. Not until you got way down the article did you learn it was AT&T's fault. Of course the comments to this story where of the Steve Jobs, the Anti-Christ, Apple the epicenter for demonic possession, and so on type, big suprise.
To me is the bigger story, there is a serious zero day exploit of Adobe Flash. Every one needs to dump what they have and get Adobe Flash Player 10.1 release candidate 7 which has the fix for this breach. It would seem Steve Jobs has a good reason for his dislike of Flash.
go here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
Did you see who wrote the article and where it is posted? Shouldn't be a surprise unfortunately.
No wonder you ignored my question to you. I knew you wouldn't be able to find even one example where Apple had a security breach that led to the info of 100,000+ folks stolen. All you can point to are cases where something theoretical could have gone wrong, but no stats of what did happen.
And yes, you are also wrong because those stories you cite were hyped beyond reality because every time there is a chance to hurt Apple the media jumps on it.
I'm probably one of those people, since I had an iPad 3G day one and activated. Not worried though, since it's only an e-mail address I used for the account and nothing else. The joys of running your own mail system, though users on GMail and some other services have options too with the + delimiter.
The SMS hack was never used by anyone and was demonstrated on Android and Windows Mobile 7 phones as well. You seem to base your opinions on sensationalist headlines.
The same applies to the passcode "hack" which was simply that you could copy media and other non-personal data with a USB connection on a linux machine. Again something you can do with most (but not all) smartphones.
I just checked the spam folder on my gmail account and I have the normal amount of "FED UP WITH YOUR SMALL PENIS PROBLEM?" emails, so no.
Well, I'm sure that the exact extent of this breach hasn't been totally exposed or realized yet. It's Gawker breaking this story, which is not exactly a news powerhouse. Let's see what the big boys find out about this. Maybe there wasn't even a breach at all. Maybe all that info you listed above was lost too.
Generally, the way it works is, we have a public email address that is checked by staff (Sometimes more than one address. You have the public address and the high level public address for people you want handled by senior staff.) and you have a private email address for friends, family and your senior staff.
At a minimum you have your business address and your personal address. It is generally a good thing to keep your personal email off of the corporate servers if you are a publicly known person. (You don't want a court order opening up the emails to your wife, girlfriend or your girlfriend's wife.)
I know we're all supposed to hate Ryan Tate, and the article title might be labeled as "misleading", but he does mention in the article that while it is an ATT security breach, many people will blame Apple because that's the hardware they hold in their hand. I mean, be realistic, if you have a screen issue on your iPad, are you going to contact the manufacturer of the screen or Apple?
I dislike Ryan Tate and his crappy website as much as the next person, believe me. But I'm also a huge supporter of "multiple US carriers for iAnything data". Give ATT the kick to the balls that they have long deserved for tarnishing Apple's otherwise wonderful image and move the f*** on to someone else already! I'd love for Jobs to be given truth serum and have him tell us EXACTLY why he continues to be married to this horrible carrier. Apple has more than enough money to pay and break the exclusivity agreement...and maybe even a good legal argument in "your network can't even handle our product" to be let out for free.
I dislike Ryan Tate and his crappy website as much as the next person, believe me. But I'm also a huge supporter of "multiple US carriers for iAnything data". Give ATT the kick to the balls that they have long deserved for tarnishing Apple's otherwise wonderful image and move the f*** on to someone else already! I'd love for Jobs to be given truth serum and have him tell us EXACTLY why he continues to be married to this horrible carrier. Apple has more than enough money to pay and break the exclusivity agreement...and maybe even a good legal argument in "your network can't even handle our product" to be let out for free.
ya not that simple since alot of the iPad users like myself are business users and cant just go changing my work email address...
all I know is if if my email address was one of the ones compromised I hope I get some compensation like several months of free service or something.
SIM ID's, No big deal
If that's all they got this it doesn't matter. Basically the ICC-ID is just the SIM's hardware address and some other info. They need the IMSI and the Ki key to even register on the network, amongst other things.
If that's all they got this it doesn't matter. Basically the ICC-ID is just the SIM's hardware address and some other info. They need the IMSI and the Ki key to even register on the network, amongst other things.
Why is there an anti-Apple agenda in some media? That's standard procedure from competitors. The more they lack in competitive products, the more they tear down Apple. Media goes along with whatever financial interest they have.
I use the one I used for iPad sign on as same one I use for AT&T iPhone sign on. Certainly not my "main" business email. I don't trust everyone I do business with over the net. Whenever I buy something I use a mobileme alias email. Doesn't everyone do something similar? You should I think. Then your email can just be discarded if the spam gets bad.