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Isn't showing partially blacked out private photos still a violation of privacy? If the author of this post really wants to be white hat, he should modify the image (above 14) to obscure the non-blacked out part of the photo with a different color. I'm unfamiliar with that celebrity in the picture but if I was familiar with her work, it would feel creepy to look at it.
What is interesting is that the perception among normal people I heard speak about this is that all of iCloud has been breached, i.e. everyone's photos are in the hands of hackers and they only released the pics of celebs.
The reality is of course likely that an attacker was able to hack one phone which among photos hosted contacts and mail addresses of other celebs and from there on they got their hand on more accounts to directly target.
Anyway, my point is that to average consumers it does not mean that they need to use stronger security or that they would understand about targeted attacks. They will believe Apple has been breached and they will think more before creating private selfies or putting health data onto their until now so trusted companions.
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Dude. 1Password. Switching to using it for everything was one of the single smartest things I did this year. I agree with you about the wider industry problem, but for your own personal use just start using a password manager. Just do it.
>Dude. 1Password. Password managers only protect against certain kinds of attack. Many cloud services do not or can not properly encrypt their users' data, so having a strong password won't help in the event that your cloud provider's datacenter gets rooted.
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Paparazzi have no problem selling exclusive photos.
Hut those are not stolen. It's much harder to get a good price for stolen goods because there is no demand from legitimate buyers, in this case large publishers.
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?
I wrote this in the other thread on the leak before it died: > Even if the leaks result from one at a time social engineering, it still really calls into question the practical security of the cloud. I doubt it's much harder to steal, e.g. confidential business documents from executives' cloud accounts than it is to steal pictures from celebrities' cloud accounts. > If I were a big organization with confidential info…
Dude. 1Password. Switching to using it for everything was one of the single smartest things I did this year. I agree with you about the wider industry problem, but for your own personal use just start using a password manager. Just do it.
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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.
1. open the App store but don't click on anything 2. hit home button 3. launch keepass client 4. navigate to apple account entry 5. copy password 6. double tap home button to bring up multitasking menu 7. tap app store 8. click install 9. paste password
It feels really stupid doing it, but you can get pretty quick at it. I can't wait for my next iPhone upgrade with touchid.
I wrote this in the other thread on the leak before it died: > Even if the leaks result from one at a time social engineering, it still really calls into question the practical security of the cloud. I doubt it's much harder to steal, e.g. confidential business documents from executives' cloud accounts than it is to steal pictures from celebrities' cloud accounts. > If I were a big organization with confidential info…
Dude. 1Password. Switching to using it for everything was one of the single smartest things I did this year. I agree with you about the wider industry problem, but for your own personal use just start using a password manager. Just do it.
Why is nobody talking about password reset questions?
Hopefully the idiots who call themselves security experts will stop making me answer "what's my mother's maiden name".
If they really want to make it safe, one easy option would be to make the question arbitrary. Of course then average people will have no idea what to put it there.
Of course, don't put "What is Love?" with the trivial answer...
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?
I've memorized a non-idiot password I use solely for iCloud.