Ibrahim Balic breaks silence on hacking Apple developer site

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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