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LOL! Well this is a REAL serious vulnerability. . . 9to5Mac has analyzed the details of the released code and has published a link to the hilariously complex "dictionary" the "hacker" uses for his "exploit" in his "hack" which they describe as "The sourcecode for the tool has been released onto GitHub. Upon inspection, the tool is really rather crude in its complexity." If your password is NOT in the 500 word dictionary, you are completely safe from this idiotic, so-called hack. The link below is his so-called dictionary:

The Five Hundred Most Commonly Used Passwords

Out of the 500 passwords, only 18 would pass Apple's test to be acceptable passwords for iCloud use, containing a number, upper and lowercase letters and a symbol.. . . and those 18 use the @, $, !, or comma as their symbol. No imagination at all. The rest do not pass muster and would be rejected.

7 posted on 01/02/2015 9:33:58 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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I really want to know why the password

1941.Salembbb.41

Is on the list. Who belongs to that password that it is so ubiquitous?

Is it possible this is the password of the hacker who wrote this thing?


8 posted on 01/02/2015 9:48:04 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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