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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii Data stolen from individual iPhones? Like someone guessed the password, or jailbroke the OS, something like that? I don't know how Apple would even know it's not the genuine owner until after the fact, when the g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii I remember one story when hackers were stealing iTunes accounts (just by guessing the passwords). Apple's response was to change iTunes so that every time your account is accessed from a new machine, you need to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sip Now, when there's speculation that Apple may just do that, we get all these negative reponses -- doomsday stuff, really. Get indoors, crawl under the bed, the world as we know it ends today. Not doomsday stuff. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ankleskater But you cannot categorically say it is impossible to prove a negative. Also not categorically impossible for Apple to publish their policy on data theft. And yet they don't. Quote: Originally Posted …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii Taken at face value, a lack of policy simply means decisions will be made on a case by case basis. I think it's quite cynical to take it to mean there's a negative policy. Have you ever been told your data was…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii If the Cult of Mac story is correct, it will work just like everyone has been saying, except it won't be Apple's servers it will be your own Time Capsule. It will set itself up as an Internet server. I wonder …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Futuristic But it's impossible to prove a negative. In other words, it's impossible for Apple to prove that they've never been hacked A reasonable argument. But policies are legally binding. If they actually said th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Futuristic But it's impossible to prove a negative. In other words, it's impossible for Apple to prove that they've never been hacked A reasonable argument. But policies are legally binding. If they actually said th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ebrak05 Apple wouldn't be this stupid to take EVERYTHING to the cloud. Yes they would. Back in '97 Steve Jobs went on and on and on about how great it was to have your home directory on the server instead of the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider In 2005, the release of an unauthorized biography entitled "iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business" prompted Apple to remove all titles by the publisher from the company's ret…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Futuristic There's a world of difference between a "policy of not telling their customers when someone steals their data" and "No policy of telling customers when their data is stolen." The first is: yeah, we're dic…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Care to point to one example where Apple has had customer data stolen from its servers? Since they don't tell anyone when it gets stolen, there are no examples to point to. Do you really think tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I do not trust biased commentaries, whether from the Left or the Right. Math is math. Do you have anything showing their math is wrong? Or are you just pulling an annonymouse and holding on to you…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta There are plenty of other reasons - like the $250 BILLION per year we're sending overseas to pay for petroleum - Last I checked we don't generate electricity from petroleum.
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Quote: Originally Posted by bartfat there was nothing Apple could've done, They can tell their customers the data has been stolen. And until I see a policy from Apple saying that's what they do, it'll be a cold day in hell before I load my da…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GotWake And you live on fantasy island! That's what the testified to Congress. No policy of telling customers when their data is stolen.
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider However, Gruber speculates that iCloud would replace iTunes as the "central store for almost all data" stored on iPhones, iPods and iPads, moving the information to the cloud. Thus, iCloud could do away wi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram The report you cite covers only Quebec. *) Both Ontario and Quebec will pay more than 50% of government revenues to health care by the end of this year. *) Health care costs are expected to grow to o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse Not really, what's stupid is to think that economic theory that ignores human nature is useful. anonymouse, there are branches of economics that take human nature into consideration. But they are branches…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LTMP Take a look at Canada, which has a completely socialized healthcare program. Comparing it to the US, the system in Canada is far superior for about 80% of the population (compared to the US). Canada health car…