Apple Developer Website Update

Post by jpttsn » Mon, Jul 22, 2013, 5:49 AM UTC

markdown wrote: post #136

ptwiggens wrote: post #129

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Your post basically amounts to a conspiracy theory. "It took them 3 days to tell us something happened. Obviously this means they would have kept it secret if it were at all possible." It takes time to figure out what happened in a breach. That doesn't mean that Apple is some evil company trying to hide the fact that there was a breach.

No, I made no mention whatsoever about how long it took them to tell us. Did you even read my comment? > That doesn't mean that Apple is some evil company trying to hide the fact that there was a breach. I never said that they were trying to hide anything. Again, did you even read my comment? > Obviously this means they would have kept it secret if it were at all possible. Well yes, that is logical. A corporation wou…

Post by gurkendoktor » Mon, Jul 22, 2013, 6:23 AM UTC

VeryVito wrote: post #185

jordanthoms wrote: post #36

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Alternately, inside the reality distortion field developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses is not sensitive personal information.

One of the understood requirements of publishing an app on the App Store is that developers must provide some means for customers to contact them directly (support page, email address, etc). If you're selling apps on the app store, people can already peddle their wares to your email account. So yeah, developer's names, addresses and emails are not secrets by any means. Why would anyone buy an app from someone they ha…

Post by cmircea » Mon, Jul 22, 2013, 7:30 AM UTC

alexbell wrote: post #138

kybernetyk wrote: post #60

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Purchases of developer memberships are handled through Apple's online store. And that is still up.

It was down last night though, possibly related?

Post by rimantas » Mon, Jul 22, 2013, 7:43 AM UTC

_sabe_ wrote: post #105

jpdoctor wrote: post #29

> Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. So they can't rule out the possibility that sensitive personal information, which cannot be accessed, has been accessed. Got it. Apparently our intelligence, which cannot be insulted, has been in…

"The intruder had good intent with trying to "secure" our personal information. But despite nothing being hacked, as it was only a 'threat', we still need to tear down and build up the system from scratch again. In the spirit of transparency we've waited 72 hours before giving you this nonsense bullshit. Please note that some (that is all) of you will from now on get regular viagra offerings in cyrillic. Good for you…

  secure
  verb [ with obj. ]
  
  2 succeed in obtaining (something), especially with difficulty

Post by rimantas » Mon, Jul 22, 2013, 7:49 AM UTC