Next you'll be saying that Samsung is behind it :rolleyes:
I highly doubt that Samsung, a company with such high levels of integrity, would stoop to such a lowly tactic.
I mean when you're as originally innovative as they are, with products that practically sell themselves without any need for excessive marketing budgets, are totally honest with customers regarding your products benchmarking capabilities, are above slagging off the competition AS WELL as the competition's customers, have no trace of criminal history, and have very little to lose financially, I would consider them well above any and all suspicion.
This story is on the front page of several UK newspapers. It couldn't have come at a worse time for Apple, especially if they're planning a big mobile payments announcement next week. Fair or unfair it just reinforces the meme that Apple doesn't get the web, doesn't get cloud services, is not up to par when it comes to security, etc. This has the makings of being a PR disaster. If it wasn't an iCloud hack Apple needs to communicate that as soon as possible.
LOL really? Rupert Murdoch's got nothing else to talk about? Or does the UK hate Apple so much because they're full of Microsoft fanboys?
This reaks of a public smear a week before the latest iPhone release.
It staggers me that ALL of the major news sites are reporting this as an iCloud hack in their headlines before briefly mentioning deep within the articles that this information has not been verified.
What the f*ck has happened to reporting these days?
In my experience, that's not true. WashingtonPost.com and NewYorkTimes.com are hardly mentioning the possible Apple connection in their stories.
That doesn't mean iCloud was hacked. They found the passwords from somewhere else and used them to log in to iCloud.
That's not very likely. If this was a couple of accounts, very possible. But when it's so many accounts, it's a hack into some system. May not be iCloud. But it's some common system. iCloud/Google Drive/One Drive/Dropbox makes sense since these are photos and if taken from a phone, could be something that does automatic backups. And one of these 4 are the likely ones from iPhones/Android/WP phones and the last because it's so ubiquitous. And given these are celebrities, the first one is the most likely.
That's not very likely. If this was a couple of accounts, very possible. But when it's so many accounts, it's a hack into some system. May not be iCloud. But it's some common system. iCloud/Google Drive/One Drive/Dropbox makes sense since these are photos and if taken from a phone, could be something that does automatic backups. And one of these 4 are the likely ones from iPhones/Android/WP phones and the last because it's so ubiquitous. And given these are celebrities, the first one is the most likely.
Apparently most, but not all, of the metadata in the photos indicated iPhone pictures. Which doesn't rule out dropbox of course.
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The UK is not a big driver of stock prices in the US.
So you can rest easy.
But UK media gets plenty of reporting here in the US. It's a headache no matter how you look at it. I just hope if it's nothing to do with iCloud that Apple says so as soon as possible,
That's not very likely. If this was a couple of accounts, very possible. But when it's so many accounts, it's a hack into some system. May not be iCloud. But it's some common system. iCloud/Google Drive/One Drive/Dropbox makes sense since these are photos and if taken from a phone, could be something that does automatic backups. And one of these 4 are the likely ones from iPhones/Android/WP phones and the last because it's so ubiquitous. And given these are celebrities, the first one is the most likely.
You're assuming this was all done at the same time. Most likely, these were pictures that were collected over years by many different hackers. I'm betting that some of the accounts took LONG time to finally gain access. Due to how valuable these pictures are, I can see people spending long time to gain access to their phones. Some/most of these hackers have no lives.
These celebs need to think of themselves like a bank or a government entity where there are constant hacking attempts.
Hmm...maybe I should get into a business of protecting celebs from virtual threats. They hire body guards, but what about virtual body guards?
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I highly doubt that Samsung, a company with such high levels of integrity, would stoop to such a lowly tactic.
I mean when you're as originally innovative as they are, with products that practically sell themselves without any need for excessive marketing budgets, are totally honest with customers regarding your products benchmarking capabilities, are above slagging off the competition AS WELL as the competition's customers, have no trace of criminal history, and have very little to lose financially, I would consider them well above any and all suspicion.
Kirsten Dunst seems to believe that her iCloud account was hacked.
She seems to be thanking iCloud for the pizza and self-serve chocolate ice cream.
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This story is on the front page of several UK newspapers. It couldn't have come at a worse time for Apple, especially if they're planning a big mobile payments announcement next week. Fair or unfair it just reinforces the meme that Apple doesn't get the web, doesn't get cloud services, is not up to par when it comes to security, etc. This has the makings of being a PR disaster. If it wasn't an iCloud hack Apple needs to communicate that as soon as possible.
LOL really? Rupert Murdoch's got nothing else to talk about? Or does the UK hate Apple so much because they're full of Microsoft fanboys?
LOL really? Rupert Murdoch's got nothing else to talk about? Or does the UK hate Apple so much because they're full of Microsoft fanboys?
I think thats basically a tabloid newspaper...sort of like NYPOST.
This reaks of a public smear a week before the latest iPhone release.
It staggers me that ALL of the major news sites are reporting this as an iCloud hack in their headlines before briefly mentioning deep within the articles that this information has not been verified.
What the f*ck has happened to reporting these days?
In my experience, that's not true. WashingtonPost.com and NewYorkTimes.com are hardly mentioning the possible Apple connection in their stories.
It's not a valid argument. People should be able to have whatever they want on a hard drive or in a secure cloud.
She seems to be thanking iCloud for the pizza and self-serve chocolate ice cream.
Maybe she's just thanking them for the publicity boost as she's kind of fallen from the lime light.
Nobody's reported any pictures of her so it's hard to know what she is even tweeting for.
That doesn't mean iCloud was hacked. They found the passwords from somewhere else and used them to log in to iCloud.
That's not very likely. If this was a couple of accounts, very possible. But when it's so many accounts, it's a hack into some system. May not be iCloud. But it's some common system. iCloud/Google Drive/One Drive/Dropbox makes sense since these are photos and if taken from a phone, could be something that does automatic backups. And one of these 4 are the likely ones from iPhones/Android/WP phones and the last because it's so ubiquitous. And given these are celebrities, the first one is the most likely.
I've seen them.
Apparently most, but not all, of the metadata in the photos indicated iPhone pictures. Which doesn't rule out dropbox of course.
The UK is not a big driver of stock prices in the US.
So you can rest easy.
Indeed. As long as you don't mind getting arrested for it.
Well anything legal is what I meant. Let's not blame people for taking legal photos
It's a big old Internet world these days. The UK newspapers do well online.
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Mail online is 8th in the US, Guardian 10th, BBC 13th
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/news-websites
That's not very likely. If this was a couple of accounts, very possible. But when it's so many accounts, it's a hack into some system. May not be iCloud. But it's some common system. iCloud/Google Drive/One Drive/Dropbox makes sense since these are photos and if taken from a phone, could be something that does automatic backups. And one of these 4 are the likely ones from iPhones/Android/WP phones and the last because it's so ubiquitous. And given these are celebrities, the first one is the most likely.
You're assuming this was all done at the same time. Most likely, these were pictures that were collected over years by many different hackers. I'm betting that some of the accounts took LONG time to finally gain access. Due to how valuable these pictures are, I can see people spending long time to gain access to their phones. Some/most of these hackers have no lives.
These celebs need to think of themselves like a bank or a government entity where there are constant hacking attempts.
Hmm...maybe I should get into a business of protecting celebs from virtual threats. They hire body guards, but what about virtual body guards?
Ok, don't steal my idea.