Apple not as secure as they claim to be...

[ralgith]

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A copy and paste quote from another site I'm on. I wont post my response to it here, since a certain someone would be upset by it

A web security group known as Goatse (yes, that Goatse...) found a gaping flaw in the programming that allowed external computer systems to access the personal data for 114,000 iPad users.

Making matters worse is that many of these people who had their systems compromised were folks in high places... like Rahm frikkin' Emmanuel himself.

AT&T is doing what it can to plug the holes, but if I read the article right Apple hasn't moved beyond the "issue mass apologies" stage.

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From what I've seen, Apple's vaunted advantage against crackers and viruses was really a product of them being so comparatively obscure and in such limited use compared to IBM-clones that there was simply no point in trying to cause havoc with them; they'd get more people and cause more damage by going after the folks with IBM-clones.

Now that Apple's products are smash hits and they're gaining considerable numbers of users each month, it might now be worth someone's time to start making noise. Apple really needs to get on the ball if they want to prevent any malicious breaches from taking place.