Anonymous hacks FBI laptop and finds personal data from millions of Apple devices
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Is there a quick way to check with decrypting the file etc etc?
Trust ur GUID (or partial) and I'll check.
Looking at the file it's just IDs and device names... you won't know how much personal info is there unless they released the whole file uncleansed.
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Why would they need to investigate 12 million people, unless they're all terror suspects
Do Al Qaeda even make an app?
Not Al Qaeda but there was a drone app for the crapple http://carbonatedtv.wordpress.com/tag/drone-plus-app/
Do people think before they speak or has the internet now entirely removed that capability in people.
Apple and other companies cannot withhold date if they get a request, backed by law from the US government. The only way they can resist is if they don't have the data. Once you get to a certain size, the US government will expect you to store relevant data on your customers.
Companies only choose how readily available this data is to the government. The only people you have to blame for this are the government of the US. Even then it is a tenuous one as they have legitimate reason for holding certain data and it was obtained via a security vulnerability in 3rd party software.
Apple and other companies cannot withhold date if they get a request, backed by law from the US government. The only way they can resist is if they don't have the data. Once you get to a certain size, the US government will expect you to store relevant data on your customers.
Companies only choose how readily available this data is to the government. The only people you have to blame for this are the government of the US. Even then it is a tenuous one as they have legitimate reason for holding certain data and it was obtained via a security vulnerability in 3rd party software.
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Someone must have told the MPAA that owners of Apple devices download a lot of music.
I knew all this years ago, but apparently I was just a "conspiracy nut" and there was "no way Apple would breach it's users' privacy like that."
This is why I don't own a smartphone, or anything made by Apple. I won't contribute towards a dark future.
This is why I don't own a smartphone, or anything made by Apple. I won't contribute towards a dark future.
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...and leaks them.
http://pastebin.com/nfVT7b0Z
It's good to know Apple keeps our data in safe hands.
Pretty shady from Apple.
Reading the quasi-pretentious bullcrap in that Anonymous 'statement' is hilarious, though. They really come across like a bunch of shut-ins that think of themselves as genius-savants, or something. Misusing philosophical terms and trying to give their actions some deeper meaning that doesn't exist. The long diatribe about the entertainment industry was a nice little recursion to every single mass-paperback of the 1990's. Well done. If teenagers look up to these people... God help them.
What is to say Google/Microsoft don't already do it. I bet they do.
Indeed, I don't own devices made by them either.
It's amusing seeing the digs at Apple here and elsewhere, I'm far from an Apple fanboy but the US government will have 'asked' (read: demanded) for this data and essentially Apple would've had no choice.
As for the FBI seemingly having an unsecure laptop, that also contained this information, just lol really
Would be interesting to see just how much personal information is actually there, they say it was far from complete so could just be the very basics...
As for the FBI seemingly having an unsecure laptop, that also contained this information, just lol really
Would be interesting to see just how much personal information is actually there, they say it was far from complete so could just be the very basics...
it's 12 million people, no way in hell was that from a court order.
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What is to say Google/Microsoft don't already do it. I bet they do.
Are you a Linux user? Technology is probably an excuse for massive data gathering exercise. An increase in broadband speeds means faster access for users, which means more data could be gathered.
Put that in your conspiracy pipe and smoke it!
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Why not? What's going to happen if you have a smart phone?
You're obviously using something to connect to the Internet with, all those details are recorded somewhere.
I'm sure you have a phone of some sort, it will be submitting information that is recorded too.