Anonymous hacks FBI laptop and finds personal data from millions of Apple devices
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because apple gave them the information is the assumption i believe.
Rather than say fighting it in court and bringing it to the public's attention.
Ahhh right I see!... How do we know that Apple gave the FBI the information?
well otherwise the FBI is about to be embroiled in one of the biggest court cases the US has seen as apple/the court rips them to pieces.
If apple happily handed it over, bad apple?
That would be awesome
I guess we'll see...But I'm betting both will stay hush hush on the whole situation...
Can't find an honest corporation anywhere these days 
As mentioned previously, it seems unlikely the FBI were able to get a warrant or order to disclose the details to so many people, so it may have been handed over willingly.
I don't see why not. If its a large investigation apple may have just said, here you go, find it yourself. The data would be out of date fairly quickly so I wouldn't have thought that it wouldn't be used in anger.
If the government only got permission to look at certain customers, regardless of the data they are given, they will only look at those records.
There is literally not a chance that anyone can know why they have that information, what it was being used for, how it was obtained etc so at the moment its just a chance to bash apple.
Or the FBI?
People can certainly play with conjecture.
I am quite far removed from the 'puter scene these days but I think it's a chance to discuss power of Governmental bodies, data security rights of the individual and the behaviour, particularly, of large corporate bodies.
Not everything has to boil down to anti-apple sentiment.
Has apple made any statement yet?
No would be the answer that I've just made up in my head!
In fact I've not even looked at the op..
Depends what the law is. There's pretty strict laws in America with handing over data to authority. Exactly what that entails I don't know.
Be interesting once we get some more info.
I'd be more concerned with this little info, if there was more data. It's a tiny fraction of the number of iPhones out there. So surly that suggests its targeted on something?
But hard to say anything without a bit more info.
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Is it?
How many iphones have apple sold in the USA?
If 12 million records are held by this chap.
What fraction is it?
Figures I see that worldwide sales up to the end of 2011 seem to come to around 120M units, worldwide not USA. So 10% of the entire iphone population is on that list?
Well is 26million iPhones in q2 2012 on its own.
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Why are you trying to work out USA sales.
Apple is an American company and subject to American laws. You are giving data to an American company, regardless of where you live.
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Okay still 5% of sales, assuming no one bought more than one phone, else we are looking at duplications. 5% is one hell of a list.
it's a big list, but it's not all iPhones, is it just iPhones or iOS devices?
As I said I'm only making a suggestion, we really need more info. Which we may or may not get.
What else was on the laptop, any suggestion what it was being used for, linked Documants or anything else.
Edit - it includes iPad as well as iPhone.
So intel in name and part of cyber criminal forensics & training alliance.
This is assuming its legit and not just hackers playing.
As I said I'm only making a suggestion, we really need more info. Which we may or may not get.
What else was on the laptop, any suggestion what it was being used for, linked Documants or anything else.
Edit - it includes iPad as well as iPhone.
So intel in name and part of cyber criminal forensics & training alliance.
This is assuming its legit and not just hackers playing.
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