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gogogo
How can you say both those sentences with a straight face, Apple is no more secure than anything else out there.
nath
Yes it is.
Magnet
@Strangerland, try selling that to anybody who heard of The Fappening on iCloud.
nath
iCloud was not hacked. This was people using weak passwords, and having their passwords guessed. That doesn't make iCloud weak, that makes people who haven't listened to years of everyone recommending strong passwords. Human error, not platform error.
Raymond Chuang
I believe a fix for this issue will be part of iOS 8.1.1, currently now in beta testing among Apple developers.
gogogo
@Strangerland: icloud was hacked, don't believe what spin apple said, apple didn't mitigate brute force logins (now fixed), photos were not encrypted, and 2step did not protect personal data including photos.
nath
Hacking means that someone gained unauthorized access to the system. That didn't happen. They got in with brute force attacks - meaning that they had a password, which in programming terms means their access was authorized to through the username/password combination. Not hacked.
LostinNagoya
As in daily life, be wise. If I receive a pop-up message telling me to avoid such and such files, sites, I do that. Just incidentally, I had to use a Windows notebook today. I was amazed at how many malware warning I got. In the end it was very tiring, having to close so many warning windows I got in half an hour. In comparison to OSX it is very clunky and dirty, visually.
gogogo
Strangerland: Brute force is hacking mate, it you want to live in an apple bubble go ahead.
nath
No.
gogogo
@Strangerland:
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/b/f/What-Is-Brute-Force-Hacking.htm
lostrune2
Those are not malware warning windows.
nath
That's like when people try to call DNoS attacks 'hacking'. It's not a hack, it's an attack.
BooDooSy
Love how tech news like to sensationalize "bugs". Here's the truth about Masque Attack:
The attackers are using compromised enterprise certificates to deploy infected apps that masquerades as normal apps. Like the article said, these certificates are so that organizations can create their own apps for iOS and install them from outside the App Store. What the article fails to mention is that your iPhone has to be setup to accept the organization specific certificate in order for this "exploit" to work.
In order for you to get infected with these apps, you need to first be convinced in to downloading apps from outside the app store, click through multiple warnings about trusting the developer of the app, and then you can install it on your device. If you stick with the App Store (as 95% of iOS users do), this "exploit" will not affect you at all.
Apple can revoke the provision for any enterprise certificates they deem are being abusive, and that is exactly what they did.
So now Apple is in the unenviable position of protecting users from themselves.