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Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by Rjevski on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:18AM (#17262544)
That was caused by stupidity - reckless password management on the victim’s part.
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Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by soperj on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:47AM (#17266570)
Not really. Apple had no limit on the number of times that you could input a password incorrectly. They brute forced it. That's on Apple.
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Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by Rjevski on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:56PM (#17267342)
True, but I won’t put all the blame on Apple here. A good, random 30-char password would be impossible to crack even with thousands of attempts per second.
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