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>> "Apple really got off super easy on the iCloud thing" I think you're confusing two separate issues here. There was a flaw in iCloud but the photo hacking in
by k-mcgrady 12y ago
>> "Apple really got off super easy on the iCloud thing"
I think you're confusing two separate issues here. There was a flaw in iCloud but the photo hacking incident which some seem to be alluding to ("break-in") was, from what I've read, done through phasing attacks, password/secret question guessing, and general social engineering rather than through a hole in iCloud. The two things were unrelated.
- Someone1234 12y agoYou realise the flaw in iCloud was that it allowed unlimited password guesses[0], right? So in effect what you just claimed is that the attackers used the known flaw in iCloud but that the two incidents are "unrelated." If attackers used dictionary attacks or brute forcing against iCloud's APIs then that is the very flaw of which we speak. Everything I've read is that they did do exactly that, therefore it is easy to claim that the flaw and the theft are related. [0]http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/25/apple-icloud-flaw-six-months-before-hacking/ http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/25/apple-icloud-flaw-six-mo...