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Second Man Behind Phishing of Celebrity iCloud Accounts Pleads Guilty
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Celebgate? I thought it was called The Fappening.
This seems to be the place to put this:
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.
~ George Orwell
This seems to be the place to put this:
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.
~ George Orwell
It is debatable. Regarding password resets, Apple forces you to use their security questions, can't make up your own. When you use "generic" questions for celebrities, the answers can be found on wikipedia.
For icloud phishing attacks, they almost always come over sms or imessages. Apple should make the messages app ask the user for confirmation when launching urls in new messages from people not in address book.
Maximum 5 year sentence? Recommended 18 month sentence. WTF? These guys should be doing long, hard time. Identity theft and fraud are serious, mean spirited crimes with massively serious implications that hurt innocent people. Until we start hunting down the pigs that do this stuff and punish them severely we won't make a dent in it.
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You're right. It should be 50 years.
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You're right. It should be 50 years.
I think "debatable" is overstating it. One should never answer security questions with legitimate answers. Mine are all plucked out of thin air - my mothers maiden name might be Rumplestiltskin one time, and Boneparte the next time - many others use randomly generated gibberish just like for passwords). And these are recorded in 1Password along with my long, random passwords. Answering any security question (yours or theirs) with a real answer is weakening security. Security is an evolving thing, and Apple has been taking continual steps to improve.
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If your response to this article is to turn off iCloud, you're not reading very carefully - iCloud wasn't hacked, this was a phishing attack - in essence, the bad guys asked the victims for their passwords, and the victims cheerfully handed their passwords over, because the email said Apple or Google (both were used) needed the information. The response isn't to turn off iCloud (or Google), rather, just don't hand out your password merely because someone says they need it. Even if they say they're Apple or Google or Santa Claus.
It was never known as "Celebgate".
I can't believe that, for a field of english lit majors, a half century later journalism still hasn't had a new idea of how to title scandals without sticking a "-gate" suffix on them & referencing watergate. ...as if any of these minor melodramas compare to Watergate on any level. But then I suppose the journalism world needs rest after exhausting themselves innovating the abbreviated conjunctions "branjelina", "bennifer", and "brexit".
Ugh. Gross.
I can't believe that, for a field of english lit majors, a half century later journalism still hasn't had a new idea of how to title scandals without sticking a "-gate" suffix on them & referencing watergate. ...as if any of these minor melodramas compare to Watergate on any level. But then I suppose the journalism world needs rest after exhausting themselves innovating the abbreviated conjunctions "branjelina", "bennifer", and "brexit".
Ugh. Gross.
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The Orwell quote is a nice touch, but we aren't exactly talking here about using euphemisms to mask government misconduct or coverups or corporate sanctioned murder or any such, so I think the quote is a bit misplaced. I'm more familiar with the name you mention, but have heard both. I think it comes down to, which name would you rather try to explain to a six year old who overhears adults talking about it.
If there's an issue with phishing attempts via SMS, Apple should take care of it. But I've personally had a phishing attempt in the messages app, only email.
Considering that guy who recently raped a woman in USA was sentenced to 6 months in prison because he's a good swimmer, I'd say two weeks is enough because these two guys were really good at phishing.
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As much as I love the attention of a quote I feel compelled to intervene here.
I was actually making reference to a meme, this one here:
But yeah, if by father I meant privacy and Inigo Montoya meant Jennifer Lawrence, it could have been perfectly valid.
Again, thanks for the quote, they bring light to my cave.
Edit for further clarification. All this because I really can't understand how the political restriction (i.e. 100 post min) applies here.
Here's a secret: When you are shown security questions, you don't actually have to type in the true answer. When they ask for your mothers maiden name, it's perfectly fine to type in "Napoleon Bonaparte" or "dk032nasfdoj239".
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MR seems to be overly politically correct. Everything now is a political issue that requires censorship around here. Very sad where we are headed as a society that we can not have any open dialog without someone behind a curtain censoring us. And this is in the USA?????What?
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yes but why do social issues need to be censored? This is overly political correctness in my view. This is USA which is supposed to be the example of Freedom of Speech. It's not supposed to be Cuba where what you say will get you censored, jailed or killed. (okay we have not gotten to the last two in this country mostly, but it seems a bit of a slippery slope to me).
Well, I get it.
I complain and joke about it but I get it.
The discussions here are supposed to be Mac-related. You know ho the internet is and how people hurl abuse and hateful words for nothing.
And yes, Political Correctness is becoming the cancer of internet and a plight in the media. But hey at least we can still complain and not get the ban hammer. (fingers crossed)
You should go try and post in the Verge and see how fast you get banned. It's hilarious, I mean, was, have not been there in a looong time.
Obrigado!
It's probably that coming back from the 4th of July weekend, I am a little more sensitive to this very un-american practice of censorship (although it seems that it is becoming very american lately).
Came here to do the same; I was thinking I never heard of celebgate.
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De nada mi amigo! (you play Tropico for a while you end up learning some Spanish.
)Aw man, the 4th of July must be an amazing celebration. I hope I eventually get to spend one in the US someday.
Anyway, we gotta keep making noise otherwise the PC gang might try up to occupy this shindig.
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Generic questions does not mean anyone need to answer with a legit answer...
Just because it is asking what city were you born, does not mean you must answer with the correct answer.
The Garden of Eden, Utopia, and such a perfectly acceptable answers.
I am not defending Apple or blaming the "victim", but being careless is the issue here.
Part of the problem is us. We throw out Freedom of Speech as if it's a catch all to say anything. It ain't. More importantly, this: Freedom of Speech, is not the same as this: freedom of speech and they shouldn't be used interchangeably. Unfortunately, that's what we do all the time. FoS is a constitutional right of expression without government restriction.
MR decisions don't fall under gov't purview. In fact, there is no presumption of freedom of speech in any private forum. We're all bound by MR's rules and regs. To assume we have freedom to speak as we please is in this forum is incorrect and entirely our fault for making that assumption. That not only applies to MR, but any forum.
I can't pop in a thread and start dropping f bombs all over the place or disparage someone's mothers all in the name of freedom of speech. Well, I can at Deadspin, but not here.
To answer your question about censoring social issues. I don't think they need to be censored. I don't think we even need a PRSI. Completely irrelevant though. It's not my site. I do understand why it exists. Everyone isn't reasonable.
Or better as I often do, INTERCHANGE the correct answers;
What is the name of your first pet?
Simone
What is your mother's maiden name
Stiggy
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Because they paint Apple in negative light and we are all Apple fanboys who are allergic to badmouthing our favorite idol