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Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

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Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

#21
I use strong passwords generated by 1Password for everything.. except for iCloud. There I have an idiot password.

Why? Because freaking iPhone asks for that when I want to download something from App Store. How do you guys handle that?

Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

#22

While I am complete appalled by the data breach and hope that similar things never happens to anyone again I would like to propose a purely thought experiment: The hacker reported sold the nude photos of Jennifer lawrence for a mere sum of $130 using bitcoin. If we apply game theory here, these kind of data is very difficult to monetize. If you sell one copy of the data, it is then immediately distributed online for…

Paparazzi have no problem selling exclusive photos.

Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

#25
post #13

Icloud hacking was mentioned and everyone has jumped on it. Many cell transmissions are unencrypted. MITM attacks should not be thrown out as a possibility. Malware is also a vector, including apps.

One of the victims stated the pictures were from several years ago. Unless the hacker was extraordinarily patient and persistent, I have to think a MITM attack on a cell tower is unlikely. More likely a cloud service (email, social media, storage) of some sort was compromised.

Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

#26
post #21

I use strong passwords generated by 1Password for everything.. except for iCloud. There I have an idiot password. Why? Because freaking iPhone asks for that when I want to download something from App Store. How do you guys handle that?

TouchID.

Yeah, how about the first time? I mean, I do not buy apps all the time, maybe once a week. And I'd have my battery dead or something like that in between those attempts.

So, I never had a chance to just hold my thumb on the home button and go my way.

Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

#28
post #24

Reddit should not be listed among the sites hosting the stolen images, as reddit does not support image uploads. Imgur is the primary site hosting the stolen images in that case.

Are we still unable to move past this pedantic hosting-vs-linking nitpicking? It's like you willfully ignore how content discovery works on the Internet.

Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

#29

While I am complete appalled by the data breach and hope that similar things never happens to anyone again I would like to propose a purely thought experiment: The hacker reported sold the nude photos of Jennifer lawrence for a mere sum of $130 using bitcoin. If we apply game theory here, these kind of data is very difficult to monetize. If you sell one copy of the data, it is then immediately distributed online for…

Paparazzi have no problem selling exclusive photos.

Because those photos are not stolen and they own the copyright.
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