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Uh-Oh...Huge Apple/iPad Security Breach

Jun 9, 2010 8:07AM PDT

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Um...
Jun 10, 2010 5:55AM PDT

You mean AT&T security breach, don't you?

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Barking up the wrong tree...
Jun 10, 2010 7:18AM PDT

You need to take it up with the article's author I linked to. His article title was "Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed". I think my thread title here is quite benign by way of comparison, lol.

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"Author" is an awfully lofty description of the hacks who
Jun 10, 2010 9:09AM PDT

write for Gawker. But as they say, corporate culture comes from the top and I would expect nothing more of Nick Denton and his tabloid empire. A smut peddler is still a smut peddler, even on the web.

For a slightly more measured take:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/technology/10apple.html

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Uh-Oh...Huge Apple/iPad Security Breach
Jun 10, 2010 7:11AM PDT

OOPS I guess AT&T has some explanation to do