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Apple Compensates Victim of iMessage Bug for Breach of Privacy - http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/06/...ch-of-privacy/
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Quote: Originally Posted by jnjnjn Repeating your arguments doesn't make your case any better. Your wrong about this and if you cannot conclude that from my previous posts (and the posts of others), you never will. J. I have proven my arg…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jnjnjn The anology is excellent, it's your thinking that's flawed. Every mobile phone with a sim card has the risk that personal data is exposed if the sim card is unlocked. Depending on de capabilities of the phone a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jnjnjn As a reminder, full prove security doesn't exist. If your car keys are stolen, someone has access to your car, no matter how advanced your car security is. So you should never let your iPhone 'lying around', t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jnjnjn So you admit that this fixes the 'problem'. I can assure you that locking your sim isn't 'unusual' at all. It's highly promoted by all carriers I know of and it's the first thing you are instructed to do if yo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ChiA Maybe the answer is to put a PIN code on your SIM, so that a thief/finder won't be able to activate the SIM card in the first place? The customer shouldn't have to go through this unusual step. Apple needs to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jnjnjn Non of the suggestions are needed in that case. All your data is exposed in that case, unless of course you use the obvious way to protected your information by setting a password. You can do a remote wipe to r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna http://supportprofile.apple.com How do you know this is linked to the way iMessage communicates ? There is no Apple support document that verifies this is the case.
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Also, if anyone has physical access to your phone (even your locked phone) for 30 seconds, they can pop out your sim card, install it into their phone and turn on iMessage, then put your sim card back into your phone. iMessages directed to you will…
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I find it absurd that Apple engineers have known about this design flaw/bug for at least two months and they are still blowing off this security issue. Pretty sad.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Corrections Complaining that things didn't work like they did in the 80s when you were swapping SIM cards with your friends is rather silly. If you don't want to mix up your devices and IDs, it's pretty simple: - do…
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It is a bug. The same results happen if you were to sell your phone, or if it's lost or stolen. Below are the details: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/20...rong-place.ars and on this Apple forum thread... https://discussions.apple.com/m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism This is pretty shameful as it’s a dumb bug to repeatedly have crop up now. It’s not like they are a startup. What does this really take from Apple to detect ahead of time? One iOS developer spending an hou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Obviously, and when it comes time to renew MobileMe, you may decide that the free service part is all you need. The value proposition comes into play whenever you decide to buy something. That was the wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Say you buy a car for $20,000. The next week, your friend buys the exact same car for $19,000. Does that change the value of car you bought? If the car is now $19,000 for all customers, and another one o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss I have no idea what that means. The value of the Pentium 2 has decreased, just like the value of MobileMe. Just because I paid $2,000 for a Pentium 2 in the past, does not mean it is aways worth that pri…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss Then don't pay it. The point you don't seem to be understanding is that you still got what you paid for in the first place -- what someone else or even you may have paid, or received for what you paid, at a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss If you bought five gallons of gasoline and the customer behind you gets one free, that doesn't mean that you paid more for your five gallons, or got less than five gallons. If every customer now gets 5 g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Your previous statements seem to suggest that anything given freely devalues the product. Yes very true!!! Especially if the feature given away for free was a key & unique part of the total package. Wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Interesting philosophy. So all these grocers giving out samples are just losing money on the sample and potential sale of the item they are giving away? Wrong analogy again. A sample is more on the lines o…