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Warning Issued For Apple's 1.4 Billion iPad And iPhone Users (Article Forbes, unsure if issue)
Forbes ^
| August 10, 2019
| Gordon Kelley
Posted on 08/12/2019 5:17:39 PM PDT by cba123
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Interesting, but not entirely sure this is a real issue at the moment.
Also noting, isn't Forbes magazine now owned by Chinese?
Big, big potential conflict there.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:17:39 PM PDT
by
cba123
To: cba123
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:19:30 PM PDT
by
cba123
( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:19:44 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
To: cba123
later goes on to say not vulnerable right now, could be in the future How convenient to mention several paragraphs in after the hysteria and click bait.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:22:33 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Specialization is for insects.)
To: cba123
Swordmaker and Rush hardest hit.
To: ctdonath2
How convenient to mention several paragraphs in after the hysteria and click bait. Oh wow, just in time! I was already in the process of tearing my bed sheets in strips. Jeffrey, wait for me! /sarc
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:27:02 PM PDT
by
Perseverando
(For Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies & other DemoKKKrats: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
To: MountainWalker
For now, the saving grace is hackers need access to your unlocked iPhone or iPad to exploit it but this may change. The fakest of fake news.
As a comparison, someone may be able to steal my car if I leave it unlocked and running in a bad neighborhood.
Go back in your holes, Apple haters, this ones a turd.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:32:26 PM PDT
by
IncPen
("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
To: MountainWalker; Swordmaker
Swordmaker and Rush hardest hit.
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This was FIXED for Apple products by updated software in May BEFORE THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the possible security problem. You cant say the same for Android and other OS based devices.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:33:32 PM PDT
by
House Atreides
(Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
To: cba123
Also noting, isn't Forbes magazine now owned by Chinese?Don't know about Forbes, but Apple components are made in China. So they probably contain the best features that the People's Liberation Army can devise.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:36:14 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: PAR35
Don't know about Forbes, but Apple components are made in China. So is every other phone maker's.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:43:01 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
To: cba123
They can hack my iPhone all they want. I don’t use it for anything other than making a rare phone call. I hate the damn thing, and would never access anything important on it. I don’t even know how people can play games, or watch TV/movies on them.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:47:42 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: cba123
“Exposed?”
Phone tech sites had reverse engineered iPhones a decade ago, and warned about this.
The battery issue wasn’t just now discovered.
Rather, they did it to enough people that they reached a tipping point and now the customer base is paying attention.
Apple never had any super secret unduplicatable technology which other people couldn’t and didn’t analyze accurately.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:48:55 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: MountainWalker
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:49:21 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: cba123
I do samsung, not an apple fanboi.
CC
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:49:58 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
To: cba123; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...
Forbes FUD article about a long closed vulnerability in iOS that required physical access to a users UNLOCKED iOS device to be able to exploit it. Absolutely nothing to see here except a major magazines opening salvo in the early weeks of FUD SEASON! PING!

FORBES FUD FOR APPLE FUD SEASON
PING!
If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
08/12/2019 6:07:21 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: cba123
The Forbes article pushes this FUD howler from last month as well:
After all, just last month six flaws were found in iMessage which allowed hackers to read your files from anywhere and one of them remains unpatched to this day.
That iMessage vulnerability ONLY permitted exposure of some portions of images which were limited to any images the user had messaged recently to the current addressee of the iMessage the user was currently sending. It would also reveal the phone number of the of the user, but thats already sent in the clear with any messaging system for the use of the carrier. It did NOT allow access to any texts, other data, or anything else on the device. . . Even the text currently being sent. In addition, it could not be exploited from anywhere but only from a local exploit where the iMessage was being sent over a compromised WIFI signal where the hacker was sharing the WIFI with the target and had to know the target was sending an iMessage. This was just more FUD.
Apple had already closed these vulnerabilities when they were announced. The unpatched vulnerability requires physical possession of an unlocked device. Not a serious vulnerability capable of ad hoc exploitation.
SHEESH! Talk about FUD Loading their article.
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posted on
08/12/2019 6:33:24 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: cba123
Conservatives buy Apple. Apple supports the democrats with lots of money.
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posted on
08/12/2019 6:33:30 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: TADSLOS
Thanks for the ping, TADSLOS.
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posted on
08/12/2019 6:33:56 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: PAR35; itsahoot
Don't know about Forbes, but Apple components are made in China. So they probably contain the best features that the People's Liberation Army can devise. Uh, no. Apple components are manufactured in almost 50 different countries including the USA. They are just assembled in China under Apple employees watchful eyes at a Taiwanese owned assembly plant.
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posted on
08/12/2019 6:37:19 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: IncPen
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