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  • Apple again rumored to goose iCloud security amid iPhone encryption flap

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    So what does this mean for users being able to set up a device from iCloud backup? Will that still be possible or are you sol if you forget your password?
    No password, no access. 

    If  the nice customer service person can give you back your access he or she can give the very same access to whomever does a good phishing job. 

    One way way to phish proof your account? On those security questions? LIE. And write the lies down. That way no amount of research can find the answer. 
    jony0ai46ration albancho

  • Man pleads guilty in celebrity iCloud hacking case, admits to phishing scheme

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    michael scrip said:
    apple ][ said:

    I'm a huge celebrity, and I just got my own iCloud account.

    I was born in 1987, in Los Angeles, and my birthday is 5/22. My dog's name is Harry.

    Since I'm such a genius, I have chosen a great password for my iCloud account "Harry1987", that nobody will ever be able to guess, unless they have an internet connection, where plenty of private and personal details about myself are available all over the place.

    And if any hacker out there were to guess my extremely complex and secure password, then I will obviously blame it all on Apple.
    That's the thing... the hacker rarely has to guess your extremely complex password.

    By using various phishing attempts... YOU give them your password!

    And that's what is so scary about this stuff.  The users themselves are a big flaw. I know plenty of people who wouldn't question an email from Google if it asked them to type in their password.  Or an email from Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc.  People are gullible.

    Me?  Not so much.  I'm very careful... plus I use two-factor authentication on all my major accounts.

    But the average person can be easily tricked into giving away their password with no problem. And that's the biggest hole in security.
    Indeed: the issue isn't the mathematics of encryption, it's the biology of Darwinism. 
    michael scrip

  • New iPhone 7 case rumor depicts thinner body, nearly flush camera

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    If all the 7 is offering is thinner and a bump to new processor then I expect the stock price to tank. I sold all my remaining appl stock last Friday 
    Because of an almost year off rumor?

    Sure you did. 
    patchythepiratenolamacguy

  • New iPhone 7 case rumor depicts thinner body, nearly flush camera

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    Variations mean choice. I expect to pay for choices I make, and not for ones I don't. Storage I don't need or camera capabilities I don't want I won't have to choose. Those I do, I will. 

    I like that. 

    What I don't like is the pathetic way this app and site treat editing on a mobile device. 
    mac_dog1983nolamacguy

  • President Obama urges prudence from both sides of encryption debate, warns against 'absolutist' pos

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    He clearly just doesn't get it. This isn't about the FBI accessing my brokerage account information, bank accounts, credit card accounts or other personal financial information: it's criminals getting their hands on that information. 
    icoco3stompyewtheckman