Hah. Multiple points merged to a single point of failure. How dumb can one person really be?

Who the hell thought linking the remote wipe feature to every single device would be a good thing?

WHERE IS YOUR iGOD NOW?

Blame yo self.

/typical iUser...

Ok, which one of you hilarious assholes posted this?


"Anonymous

Do you have any idea what gorilla warfare is? I do, I was in the US
Marine Core and I perfected it. I'm fully capable of using it on you
motherfarkers. Do you know the danger you're in if I find you? I am 100%
serious. Bunch of god damn newfag losers here and I will not have it.
At least I've had sex, had girlfriends, and gotten laid, and blowjobbed
unlike you virgin pieces of unpatriotic shiat."

Epic fail by an apple fanboy. What happened to this guy is why you don't all of your data in the same ibasket.

If only we knew of someone who could help. Oh wait... we're SAVED@!!!!

bingethinker: In before paid shills and brainwashed douchebags try to blame this on Apple.

/Oh, way too late.

Ah. Wouldn't be an Apple thread without you coming in and saying anyone who criticizes Apple is a paid shill. Silly troll.

lousyskater: bingethinker: In before paid shills and brainwashed douchebags try to blame this on Apple.

/Oh, way too late.

I wish I was getting paid to hate on apple.

So very much this.

It isn't that you can't get P0wned on a WinBlows machine, or a linux box. You can.

But to actively PAY someone to make sure that a single password (accesible online, no less!) can remotely wipe all your devices, destroy all your data, and nuke all your accounts? That takes a special kind of stupid.

bingethinker: In before paid shills and brainwashed douchebags try to blame this on Apple.

/Oh, way too late.

Ha ha ha ha, you're a funny name-caller. You must know what you're talking about.

bingethinker: In before paid shills and brainwashed douchebags try to blame this on Apple.

/Oh, way too late.

While it is mostly this guy's fault, Apple shares the blame for not having proper security features in place prevent this sort of thing.

bingethinker: In before paid shills and brainwashed douchebags try to blame this on Apple.

/Oh, way too late.

I wish I was getting paid to hate on apple.

Question- except for the gmail/twitter/etc being hacked, wouldn't the whole problem have been solved if Apple kept a temporary storage of things deleted off your icloud account for a small amount of time? Like 48 hours or something?

You "delete" something, but apple doesn't delete it until 48 hours later...

BullBearMS: Nope. The idiot with a seven character password didn't make any external backups of his important data, either.

What a stubbornly ignorant view of Apple's entire design philosophy. iCloud is billed as a simple backup solution for Apple devices. If you read through the various documents on their site it is referred to repeatedly as a backup solution. iCloud is external backup, it's just external backup for people who don't know what they're doing with technology: Apple users.

The whole point, as has been the case with Apple for years, is to take the responsibility and trouble out of the hands of the users and just do it for them. That's one of the big criticisms from Apple detractors: that it's foolish to trade control over the management of your own devices and processes in the name of simplicity and that people who do so are going to suffer substantial consequences as a result.

And this is proof that the detractors are right. Apple sells itself as simple, hands-off technology and this is what happens when you make things too simple. What should have been a minor annoyance turns into a full-blown catastrophe.

So I'll ask again. If the iCloud account of a non-Apple-device user is broken into, what damage is done aside from losing online backups?

Bahahah.... ohh apple.. you amuse me:)

Basily Gourt: Old school backup.

DVDs in a waterproof firebox.

Once a month bring copies of DVDs to safety deposit box.

2x year onto backup hardrive, which is kept in SDB.

PIA but effective.

I taught a class where one of the students worked in the industry and had a really cool story he shared with everyone.

The company he worked for stored tape backups in an onsite walk-in vault, but periodically they went bad. The tapes were physically fine, but the data was corrupted and unreadable. They went nuts trying to figure out how this was happening. They changed the brand of tape they used. They changed out the backup drives. They changed their backup software. They ran comparisons on what was on the hard drives versus what was on the tapes before they put them in the vault.

Everything was fine, until after those tapes went into that huge walk-in fireproof sealed vault.

After much investigation and the installation of a 24/7 surveillance system, they discovered that once a month or so, maintenance was taking a floor buffer into the vault and polishing up the floors with a giant electromagnet.

Your Average Witty Fark User: This isn't an Apple issue, dipshiats. This could've happened to anyone on any platform.

Soooo.... it's not an Apple issue even though it's an Apple service mainly used to tie together Apple devices which can be remotely wiped by anybody who has access to the account.

So riddle me this, brainiac. Had he been using exclusively Windows machines, would he have lost anything more than his gmail account and online backups?

This has to be bullshiat I have always heard apple customer service is the best and fixes everything in 30 secs.

Erder: And no.. someone didn't brute force your 7 digit random alphanumeric password by spamming the iCloud login site. Pick the easy answer! Look back and somewhere you'll find a keylogger somewhere that makes a lot more sense than someone recreational trying billions of combinations to get into your twitter account (assuming they somehow KNEW it was 7 digits). Heck even a hidden camera targeting your keyboard is a more likely scenario.

But he can't have a keylogger! He uses a Mac! They don't get viruses and stuff!

Single sign on seems like a fantastic idea and generally is fine at work or in any otherwise protected area. Password + expiration rules + VPN software + settings + configuration information of tools means there are a lot more hoops to jump past.

Now having practically everything linked via a single sign-on publicly accessible website with every other account you have having that email as a reset address.. really? This is a good idea why? Aside from sticking it to someone who stole your product, what's the advantage of a remote wipe?

And no.. someone didn't brute force your 7 digit random alphanumeric password by spamming the iCloud login site. Pick the easy answer! Look back and somewhere you'll find a keylogger somewhere that makes a lot more sense than someone recreational trying billions of combinations to get into your twitter account (assuming they somehow KNEW it was 7 digits). Heck even a hidden camera targeting your keyboard is a more likely scenario.

I think the lesson is that, if you run a tech webiste, you should keep on top of computer security. That seems to be completely freaking obvious.

This is why you back up your shiat many times to many locations. What if instead of being hacked he had simply lost the devices or had a disaster like a fire or flood?

Enormous-Schwanstucker: Hah. Multiple points merged to a single point of failure. How dumb can one person really be?

Who the hell thought linking the remote wipe feature to every single device would be a good thing?

Apple?

/he backs up shiat to the cloud but not an external HDD that cannot be accessed when it's sitting in a desk drawer in his office?