I think the bigger issue is the embarrassment caused by being outed as someone who actually purchased an iPad :-)
Randy On 06/11/2010 10:41 AM, Joel Esler wrote: > Dan, > > Good points. > > OMG the email addresses for iPad owners were exposed!!! > > Oh, you mean the email addresses that these people use, on the > /internet/ all day every day? > > > On Jun 11, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Dan Kaminsky wrote: > >> On the one hand, privacy operates on a completely different wavelength >> (specifically, "the worst _has_ happened", instead of "the worst >> _could_ happen"). On the other, people are pulling things out of their >> butt to justify an extreme *security* response to what is pretty >> obviously a low grade security vuln. >> >> Believe it or not, this is a good thing. After the ridiculous >> (ongoing!) overreaction to the Google wifi beacon capture bug, I was >> wondering if privacy overreactions had any limit. Apparently they do >> -- even the lamest reporter will respond to "OMG MIKE BLOOMBERG HAS AN >> IPAD" with "...so?". >> >> Sure, *we* get dragged into the mess, but heh. >> >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:26 AM, David Harley >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> OTOH: >> >> Apple's worst security breach, or a great big hyperbole? >> >> http://www.sophos.com/blogs/duck/g/2010/06/10/apples-worst-security-breach/ >> >> -- >> David Harley BA CISSP FBCS CITP >> ESET Research Fellow >> >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> > [mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Juha-Matti Laurio >> > Sent: 10 June 2010 11:34 >> > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> > Subject: [funsec] Apple's worst security breach: 114, 000 >> > iPad owners exposed >> > >> > "Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach >> > has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military >> > officials, and top politicians. >> > They-and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled >> > tablet-could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking. >> > >> > The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee >> > lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, >> > exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a >> > collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes >> > thousands of A-listers in finance, >> > politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet >> > Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein >> > to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House >> > Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised." >> > >> > http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000- >> > ipad-owners-exposed?skyline=true&s=i >> > >> > Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
