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Re:Notices have already been issued under Australia’s new en... by WrtCdEvrydy on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @01:51PM (#19098320)
You can't seriously say that a multi-million dollar company can't enforce those security features by default.

This is the same as having a car recall and having people dying before the letters reach their homes and saying 'they should have known this company's cars could explode'

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Re:Notices have already been issued under Australia’s new en... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @01:59PM (#19098431)
I don't understand the purpose of using analogies (valid or not) in this discussion.

Apple could have forced people to use multi factor authentication, and whether or not they should have forced it is a separate discussion that can be had. But I was claiming that your original comment was that iCloud was "hacked" is incorrect, since it implies there was some weakness on Apple's technical backend.

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Re:Notices have already been issued under Australia’s new en... by WrtCdEvrydy on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:03PM (#19098476)
Not forcing secure by default practices in your secure devices is a weakness on Apple's technical backend.

Maybe they should take a couple of notes for their broken cloud implementation from another phone manufacturer in the space that takes security seriously:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/30/iphone...

https://www.cso.com.au/article/577197/apple-tells-ios-9-deve...

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