Wow I didn't think it was possible but you managed to bring Microsoft into this thread by some .NET error. I can't say I'm shocked though...it always happens.
Posted on 06/09/2010 4:02:59 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's information was compromised.
(Excerpt) Read more at gawker.com ...
Me, too. The anti-Apple Freepers sound like girly-boys and act like liberals.
My 2 cents: Those who can build their won computers and write their own programs resent us who can't, or don't care to, and are willing to pay more to not have to. The fact that we also get a superior product is an additional thorn in their side. They usually respond by saying how they could have built a much better machine for much less money and call us Mac users gay for good measure.
In short, they sound like girly boys and act like liberals, and, as you say, over an inanimate object, although it does seem to come alive at times.
........Hackers most likely from Russia,China, or Middle East.
Oh, they are out there, at least in labs. The point is, you can always get someone to click on something, put in their password, and release the hounds of hell into a system.
Human engineering is always a weak point...:)
Pesonally, my opinion is that there is a lot of hate by mostly reasonable people towards Apple products.
I am surprised that, with Apple being as unsecure as it is made out to be by some, that it hasn’t been attacked by those who fanatically hate its products.
There is a difference, I think. There are many people who hate Microsoft products, but it is, in many cases, the result of experience with the products.
There are many who hate Apple products, and many of them DON’T have much experience with Apple products. There is something else they are angry at.
So with all that anger, and all that talent, I am very surprised there have been no attacks on macs to speak of.
Another reason too is because Apple has been a hit among those in the creative arts/graphic design/communications community, one of which the Windows based computers have not done so well in.
Well, it can be done. Funny thing, though...nobody does.
I suspect the intellectual level of the vast majority of windows hackers simply doesn’t provide them with enough tools to do so.
And that is fine with us who use Macs. I don’t care about the reason, I care about the result.
They have short memories of the years that Apple stubbornly hung onto an inferior hardware platform and the consequences that has in terms of the industry. They think enterprise datacenters should just forklift millions of Windows machines and re-write billions of lines of code so that everyone can be like them.
They praise Jobs and his business model to the heavens, but I have yet to have any of them be able to tell me they think the industry would be better off if Microsoft had adopted that same business model early on instead of concentrating on writing a hardware agnostic OS, and letting the hardware sector flourish around it.
Disclaimer: I am a Window system administrator and Exchange administrator, and I'm still waiting to see that mythical open source Exchange killer.
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denial
See how easy that is?
But apple REQUIRES the info to be shared with Apple and they CHOSE to share it will their ONLY business Partner Apple.
You know if you do business with a PARTNER you can be held liable for thier mistakes as if it’s your OWN mistake. Read the article they explain WHY Apple should be held accountable for this (as well as ATT).
I had to register my Droid with a Gmail address. And I’ll blame Verizon if Verizon’s servers give out my email address.
Ah I see you're using the technique from the 1990's Bill Clitnon White House...attack the messenger when you can't attack the facts. FACT: Apple Requires their customers share that info to use their 3G iPAD. FACT: Apple chose ATT as the sole business partner for 3G iPAD. FACT: Apples & ATT's method of making it easy for an iPAD user on ATTs website was hacked. FACT: Apple and ATT are business partners for the iPAD and consumers who bought one had no other choice but to use ATT. FACT: The system was easily hacked to expose personal information. Fiction: Apple is blameless in this situation.
Would it matter...all attacks get ignored and dismissed by Macbots time after time. So I'm not playing that game anymore. Fact is the Mac has been exploited but then the rules of what an exploit means changes everytime a new exploit is found.
With the droid you have a choice in service providers though. Where is my choice in providers with the iPad?
When customers stop accepting it as an excuse to drop support.
We had the problem on an install once, someone blabbed about it being on a VM. Before they would give us any further support we had to secure a hardware server, install it there, and call back when we hit the problem again. They didn't care about my "Told you it wasn't the VM." The purpose was apparently to wear us down to the point where we would quit calling support.
So the moral of the story is: Before buying anything ask "Do you support it on VMWare/Virtual Server/...?" If not, don't buy it. If they lose enough sales due to lack of VM support they will eventually sign on to it, and at that point they can't just blame the VM and stop supporting you anymore.
” For those of you already familiar with the infamous “goatse”, yes, that’s not a joke, it’s absolutely serious. It’s a security firm. Their logo is a hoot. http://security.goatse.fr/ “
I went to their web site and looked at the bottom of the page. Wholly owned subsidiary of GNAA (.eu). That is also quite enlightening.
For this particular phone there is no other choice. Remember, even though Droid is available on many carriers in the US, individual phones that run Droid are often carrier-specific. Of course internationally the iPad is available on many carriers, and any of them could screw up too.
Right, but google isn’t locking you into Verizon as their ONLY partner for service. Apple and ATT in the US are one entity when it comes to iPad/iPhone. To try and deny that is just showing you’re willing to defend apple at any cost.
Wow I didn't think it was possible but you managed to bring Microsoft into this thread by some .NET error. I can't say I'm shocked though...it always happens.
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