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Re: Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation

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Post by pptr1 »

I am kinda of sick of hearing about how celebs got hacked and how it is such a big deal.

The media over hypes these things and really the celebs involved should of used stronger passwords and/or 2 factor authentication. They should of known better.

People get "hacked" this way tons of times by using weak passwords and/or security questions. You'll never see that appear in the media.

The inequality here is the importance the media places on Kate Upton, Jennifer Lawrence, etc. It a waste of tax payer money to get the "FBI" invoked. I see it also has a waste for the government to chummy up with these "celebs". Some of them are great entertainers no doubt, but what have they done to really deserve the popularity they have.

Have they build something that tremendously improves people lives. Are they key decision makers on items that effect people? Yes Jennifer Lawrence is a great actress but c'mon.

Stop giving importance to celebs by not reading news about them. Radaronline, Tmz, etc.

Re: Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation

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Post by [deleted] »

jgrahamc wrote: post #15
Torgo wrote: post #12

It seems like it would be a feat to gather all the user IDs of these famous people in the first place. I'm guessing there's a black market just for that? I used to work on a service used by quite a few famous people, if anybody on the project was unscrupulous, it would have been easy to pass those emails and other personal information on to a hacker.

If you can break into one person's account and get their contacts then you can recurse from there. It's likely that one celebrity knows another and so on.

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Re: Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation

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Post by sp332 »

vitamen wrote: post #3

So "This is a very common attack on the Internet that we didn't do much to protect you against by default"? It's a pain setting up two step authentication across a lot of services, but I guess iCloud is probably one that's worth the effort. Still I'd rather brute force was not an option.

The recently fixed "find my phone" feature doesn't support two-factor auth because, presumably, you can't find your phone to get the second factor.

Re: Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation

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Post by julianpye »

People have become so close with their smartphones that they entrust it with more information than their friends know. In addition no brand is more loved than Apple, with many celebrities being ambassadors to the brand. The brand is planning to introduce new payment and health services next week.

For the average consumer two-factor-authentication means nothing, but they will start distrusting Apple more and will be more careful with data. This does not mean they will use more and better security. The average consumer will just stop using some of these services.

Re: Update to Celebrity Photo Investigation

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Post by IBM »

chez17 wrote: post #27
nokiaman wrote: post #23

The damage has been done, surely? Headlines around the world are "iCloud hacked", "Apple hacking scandal", "Are your photos safe on iCloud?" etc. Meanwhile celebrities like Kirsten Dunst have described iCloud as a "piece of shit" (a tweet with emoticons). Timing is not great for Apple since they are supposed to be launching health and payment related features for iOS in the next few days. Question is, would Apple hav…

I'm sorry, but Apple was hacked. There are multiple layers to security. Even the physical security of the building counts. If you have a terrible, easy to crack security system like "What is your first pet's name?" and your customers lose their data because of it, your system was hacked. Plain and simple. Security isn't just blocking a port or an ip range, it's the entire, the entire , system. Those "security questio…

Apple wasn't hacked in any sense by the definition of what non-pedants go by.
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