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Re:Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site by jasallen on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @09:12AM (#6095952)
That probably wouldn't have shut down the site, which in turn would not have gotten the attention. He wasn't making a point to Apple, who already knew the bugs existed, he was making Apple do something about it. He did.
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Re:Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site by kybernetyk on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @10:27AM (#6096342)
> That probably wouldn't have shut down the site

So the guy is a hero. Thanks for disturbing real life businesses for several days, I guess?

> he was making Apple do something about it.

This behavior is endemic for the self-righteous security "researcher" scene. "I found a bug - you must do what I say, NOW, or else ..."

It's not like Apple would have ignored his bug reports if he wouldn't have scraped 100k developer accounts.

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Re:Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site by jasallen on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @01:39PM (#6097688)
"This behavior is endemic for the self-righteous security 'researcher' scene"

Yes, and that behavior is moving us to a world where corporations have to be careful what they put out, not just rush the newest shiny feature out faster. Besides, who do you want exploiting the bug, a self-righteous guy who 'may' be in it for his own glory, or an out-and-out criminal?

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Re:Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site by ZoF on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @10:37AM (#6096407)
He says he reported the bug previously and got no response...

So, it's very much "like Apple would have ignored his bug reports..."

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Re:Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site by agent123 on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @11:03AM (#6096566)
What he leaves out is that he waited less than a day for a response. (You can see this from the radar shown in his video)
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Re:Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site by agent123 on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @11:00AM (#6096542)
His video shows that he filed radars on July 19th - the same day downloaded the 100,000 developer names and email addresses.

This is not responsible reporting, and he's clearly broken the UK computer misuse laws, since he signed an agreement with Apple governing the use of these systems.

I hope he's arrested soon. This behavior does nothing to help legitimate business or the security community.

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Re:Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site by jasallen on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @01:29PM (#6097576)
If it truly was same day, I agree, that changes everything. I'll wait until more information comes out to decide.
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