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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right' by IBM on Thursday October 01, 2015 @09:44PM (#10316107)
That's not relevant at all to the iCloud "hack". It's a cloud service, the whole point is to store data online.

Those accounts were breached because celebs were phished and not because of bruteforcing, as some people were speculating at the time, or some other vulnerability.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right' by muddi900 on Thursday October 01, 2015 @10:35PM (#10316344)
Everyone gets phished. Fraud happens. Secret Questions are especially susceptible to phishing attacks. This has been known for about a decade. Apple had not updated the security protocols for iTunes, and in turn App Store and iCloud, for that time. The hack was definitely Apple's fault.

'"In total, the [500] unique iCloud accounts were accessed 3,263 times," the document states.' - http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-investigation-into-the-fa...

This was a massive failure in Apple's part.

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right' by gozo on Thursday October 01, 2015 @11:32PM (#10316578)
Yes, how can one trust a company's claims about privacy when the seemingly lose no trust over even such a high-profile incident? Celebrities phones has been targeted since at least the T-Mobile Sidekick.
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