[funsec] Apple's faith-based security taking a hammering

2011-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
http://news.techeye.net/security/apples-faith-based-security-taking-a-hammering For the last year, hackers have been able to crash through Apple's faith-based security and spend other user's cash, and Jobs' Mob has been unable to stop them. The first reports were in November 28, 2010, when a user

Re: [funsec] Apple's faith-based security taking a hammering

2011-09-13 Thread Joel Esler
On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > http://news.techeye.net/security/apples-faith-based-security-taking-a-hammering > > For the last year, hackers have been able to crash through Apple's > faith-based security and spend other user's cash, and Jobs' Mob has > been unable to stop t

Re: [funsec] Apple's faith-based security taking a hammering

2011-09-13 Thread Nick FitzGerald
Joel Esler wrote: > Protip: Use better passwords. As you're clearly not a holder of the faith -- all fan boiz know Steve and Apple are just waaay too cool to even need passwords, their software is just so secure -- your advice is totally irrelevant... Regards, Nick FitzGerald ___

Re: [funsec] Apple's faith-based security taking a hammering

2011-09-13 Thread Joel Esler
On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Nick FitzGerald wrote: > Joel Esler wrote: > >> Protip: Use better passwords. > > As you're clearly not a holder of the faith -- all fan boiz know Steve > and Apple are just waaay too cool to even need passwords, their > software is just so secure -- your advice i

Re: [funsec] Apple's faith-based security taking a hammering

2011-09-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:52:44 EDT, Joel Esler said: > Oh, I'm a fanboy. Anyone knows that. I'm also a believer in the factor that > "most humans are stupid" and set their passwords to "password". Am I the only one surprised that unintentional mis-spellings of "password" aren't higher up the "mo

Re: [funsec] Apple's faith-based security taking a hammering

2011-09-13 Thread Nick FitzGerald
Valdis to Joel Esler: > > Oh, I'm a fanboy. Anyone knows that. I'm also a believer in the factor > > that > > "most humans are stupid" and set their passwords to "password". > > Am I the only one surprised that unintentional mis-spellings of "password" > aren't higher > up the "most frequentl