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Apple gets a lot of things wrong, but one thing it gets right is (mostly) designing things so that they couldn't get your data, even if they wanted to.

• soperj 8y ago
  You mean like the iCloud thing where a bunch of famous women had home videos of themselves stolen?
  • dorchadas 8y ago
    Wasn't that more social engineering and password guessing though? Nothing they can do there apart from more security layers in the password/login but people will still not use string passes and be suspectible to social engineering.
    • linkregister 8y ago
      After that they did exactly that, they included multi-factor authentication when it was previously unavailable. The MFA available in 2018 is dramatically better than it was in 2014, when I believe all that occurred. Companies that don't protect unsophisticated users from simple mistakes or inaccurate mental models will get a reputation for being insecure and lose sales. This is regardless of whether the user "should have known better."
    • bitmapbrother 8y ago
      Their iCloud service was susceptible to brute force attacks.
  • Rjevski 8y ago
    That was caused by stupidity - reckless password management on the victim’s part.
    • soperj 8y ago
      Not really. Apple had no limit on the number of times that you could input a password incorrectly. They brute forced it. That's on Apple.
      • Rjevski 8y ago
        True, but I won’t put all the blame on Apple here. A good, random 30-char password would be impossible to crack even with thousands of attempts per second.