The entire freaking tech industry is falling down on the job, and Apple, my favorite company in the world, is stumbling around too. What’s worse is that it doesn’t seem to care. Apple is the most profitable consumer tech company in the world, with billions of dollars in the bank. Yet the company can’t seem to be bothered to imagine that iCloud user accounts could be compromised by brute force password attacks launched with a Python script offered up on GitHub?
I've been saying for a long time that any parent with a 16-year-old daughter should be led gently by the hand to the nearest insane asylum if they even CONSIDER giving an iPhone to her! Do they realize want to expose the current location of their precious "child" to the excited interest of any passing would-be (or actual!) rapist with just a bit more than the basic amount of technological knowledge? It is simply not all that difficult to hack into the tables of current locations of all powered-up iPhones ...
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We Can Fly to the Moon, but We Can’t Secure the Cloud?
Posted by: Chris Maxcer September 4, 2014 07:21 AMThe entire freaking tech industry is falling down on the job, and Apple, my favorite company in the world, is stumbling around too. What’s worse is that it doesn’t seem to care. Apple is the most profitable consumer tech company in the world, with billions of dollars in the bank. Yet the company can’t seem to be bothered to imagine that iCloud user accounts could be compromised by brute force password attacks launched with a Python script offered up on GitHub?