[release]The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the leak of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad user e-mail addresses.
Hackers belonging to a group called Goatse obtained the e-mail addresses after uncovering a Web application on AT&T's Web site that returned an iPad user's e-mail address when it was sent specially written queries. After writing an automated script to repeatedly query the site, they downloaded the addresses, and then handed them over to Gawker.com.
Now the FBI is trying to figure out whether this was a crime. "The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation into addressing the potential cyberthreat," said Lindsay Godwin, an FBI spokeswoman.
The investigation was opened Thursday by the FBI's Washington Field Office, she said. Godwin did not know if the investigation was opened at the request of Apple or AT&T. AT&T declined to comment, and Apple has not replied to requests for comment.
According to Gawker, Goatse hackers were able to download e-mail addresses belonging to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer. They also gained access to addresses belonging to employees of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the U.S. military.
The hackers did this by guessing thousands of unique numbers -- called ICC-ID (Integrated Circuit Card Identifier) -- belonging to iPad users and feeding them into the AT&T Web site.
They wrote a PHP script that flooded AT&T's Web site with possible ICC-ID numbers and logged responses when the site returned an e-mail address. According to an interview with AT&T Chief Security Officer Ed Amoroso, the script exploited a feature on the Web site designed to auto-fill a login form with an e-mail address in order to speed things up when iPad 3G users went to view their AT&T accounts.
In a blog post Thursday, Goatse said that it did nothing illegal. The group obtained the the e-mail addresses via a public Web interface and then gave them to Gawker, but no one else, and has since destroyed the data, it said. "We did not contact AT&T directly, but we made sure that someone else tipped them off and waited for them to patch until we gave anything to Gawker. This is as 'nice guy' as it gets."
U.S. law prohibits the unauthorized accessing of computers, but it is unclear whether the script that the Goatse group used violated the law, said Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The question is, when you do an automated test like this, [are you] getting any type of unauthorized access or not," she said.
If it turns out the data in question was not misused, it is unlikely that federal prosecutors will press charges, she added.[/release]
[b]SOURCE:[/b] [url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/198547/fbi_investigating_ipad_email_leaks.html[/url]
oh god look at their logo
[img]http://security.goatse.fr/images/goatse_security.png[/img]
All I can say is:
:owned:
That's why you don't waste your money on an iPad.
This is like a week old. Seriously.
[QUOTE=d3450;22584909]That's why you don't waste your money on an iPad.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=GunskiMod;22584934]This is like a week old. Seriously.[/QUOTE]
Fuck.
What a last name.
Godwin.
[QUOTE=The man of "Wat";22584974]What a last name.
Godwin.[/QUOTE]
:godwin:
This is so old, there's even a CAD comic about it.
And it's slightly humorous.
That's what you get for using Apple products.
[IMG]http://www.cad-comic.com/comics/cad/20100611.jpg[/IMG]
Then again, that's what they get for buying something useless.
They were talking about it on NPR while my mom and I were in the car, and they kept saying "Goatse Security".
I chuckled.
[QUOTE=Emperorconor;22585389][IMG]http://www.cad-comic.com/comics/cad/20100611.jpg[/IMG]
Then again, that's what they get for buying something useless.[/QUOTE]
Holy fucking shit, something useless? Get over yourself, fanboy. The Ipad is as useful as the Touch, just because it doesn't support everything you nerds want doesn't mean it's a shit product. It does what people want it to do, and that's all they fucking need. Bandwagon more, they definitely don't deserve to have their personal email addresses leaked out to the world because they bought something your inferior brain doesn't like.
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Incoming dumbs from people who don't like it when people enjoy things they don't
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[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22585558]Holy fucking shit, something useless? Get over yourself, fanboy. The Ipad is as useful as the Touch, just because it doesn't support everything you nerds want doesn't mean it's a shit product. It does what people want it to do, and that's all they fucking need. Bandwagon more, they definitely don't deserve to have their personal email addresses leaked out to the world because they bought something your inferior brain doesn't like.
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In before dumbs from people who don't like it when people enjoy things they don't[/QUOTE]
It costs too much for what you get.
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22585558]your inferior brain doesn't like.
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You got it all wrong, it's the iPad that's inferior :downs:
[QUOTE=radioactive;22585644]It costs too much for what you get.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't really matter, sure it costs too much, but they obviously have money to blow, so they buy something they think is useful to them (which it probably is)
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[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22585680]You got it all wrong, it's the iPad that's inferior :downs:[/QUOTE]
Ya man iPad sux cuz it doesnt have all the things us nerds need to live, fukin casuals
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22585558]Holy fucking shit, something useless? Get over yourself, fanboy. The Ipad is as useful as the Touch, just because it doesn't support everything you nerds want doesn't mean it's a shit product. It does what people want it to do, and that's all they fucking need. Bandwagon more, they definitely don't deserve to have their personal email addresses leaked out to the world because they bought something your inferior brain doesn't like.
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Incoming dumbs from people who don't like it when people enjoy things they don't[/QUOTE]
Steve Jobs is a greedy bastard, and you're another douchey fan-boy.
Holy fucking shit, something useless? Get over yourself, fanboy. The Ipad is as useless as the Touch, just because it doesn't support everything you nerds want does mean it's a shit product. It does what people want it to do, and that's all they fucking need. Bandwagon more, they definitely deserve to have their personal email addresses leaked out to the world because they bought something your inferior brain does like.
Incoming dumbs from people who don't like it when people enjoy things they do
[QUOTE=Dr. Freeman;22585732]Steve Jobs is a greedy bastard, and you're another douchey fan-boy.[/QUOTE]
Douchey fan-boy? I'm all for Windows, and Microsoft altogether, it doesn't take a fanboy to figure out that you guys are just being bandwagoning assholes
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[QUOTE=Dr. Freeman;22585732]Steve Jobs is a greedy bastard, and you're another douchey fan-boy.
Holy fucking shit, something useless? Get over yourself, fanboy. The Ipad is as useless as the Touch, just because it doesn't support everything you nerds want does mean it's a shit product. It does what people want it to do, and that's all they fucking need. Bandwagon more, they definitely deserve to have their personal email addresses leaked out to the world because they bought something your inferior brain does like.
Incoming dumbs from people who don't like it when people enjoy things they do[/QUOTE]
You make me want to shoot myself bro
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Lol, I can't believe you said "it doesn't support what a small percentage of people want therefore it is a shit product", the world doesn't revolve around you guys, ahahaha.
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22585766]Douchey fan-boy? I'm all for Windows, and Microsoft altogether, it doesn't take a fanboy to figure out that you guys are just being bandwagoning assholes
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No we just hate computer illiterate people who think they know shit.
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22585766]Douchey fan-boy? I'm all for Windows, and Microsoft altogether, it doesn't take a fanboy to figure out that you guys are just being bandwagoning assholes[/QUOTE]
keep on hating, douchey fan-boy.
we'll take you serious when you talk like you know what you're talking about, swearing every sentence looks retarded.
Also, gold member doesn't make you superior, stop waving what little e-peen you have.
[QUOTE=Dr. Freeman;22585838]keep on hating, douchey fan-boy.
we'll take you serious when you talk like you know what you're talking about, swearing every sentence looks retarded.[/QUOTE]
I do know what I'm talking about
You're just the intolerant type that can't take it when people don't know as much about computers as you, and can settle with the basics because they don't NEED advanced options.
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[QUOTE=Dr. Freeman;22585838]keep on hating, douchey fan-boy.
we'll take you serious when you talk like you know what you're talking about, swearing every sentence looks retarded.
Also, gold member doesn't make you superior, stop waving what little e-peen you have.[/QUOTE]
When did I imply Gold Member made my opinion important? Am I supposed to go log onto my non-gold alt for you or something?
AT&T. Not Apple. AT&T. Gawker got their panties in a bunch because they weren't invited to WWDC so they decided to make it "Apple's biggest iLeak ever" instead of "AT&T's biggest iLeak ever"..
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22585836]No we just hate computer illiterate people who think they know shit.[/QUOTE]
Let them believe they are knowledgeable, what does it hurt you?
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22585868]I do know what I'm talking about
You're just the intolerant type that can't take it when people don't know as much about computers as you, and can settle with the basics because they don't NEED advanced options.
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When did I imply Gold Member made my opinion important? Am I supposed to go log onto my non-gold alt for you or something?[/QUOTE]
I don't care, IPad is a piece of shit and steve jobs is a greedy asshole.
Listen to Gummy.
[QUOTE=Dr. Freeman;22585942]I don't care, IPad is a piece of shit and steve jobs is a greedy asshole.[/QUOTE]
Whatever you say, fanboy.
i wonder if my teacher's email leaked out
It was an AT&T leak, I remember watching a video about it a while ago.
As far as the iPad goes, I originally said it was made to fit a niche that doesn't exist, and it dumped some features to fit that niche. Although it seems to have found its place.
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22585868]I do know what I'm talking about
You're just the intolerant type that can't take it when people don't know as much about computers as you, and [B]can settle with the basics[/B] because they don't NEED advanced options.
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The basics? I understand that most people don't care about the HDMI or the ports and all such things, but I think Flash, Multitasking, and the lack of a camera (That even the worst cell phones have) are very basic things.
The iPad doesn't even meet the most basic stuff.
serves those faggoty apple fanboys right fucking useless shit
WINDOWS FTW!!
Shut up with these 'wars' and fanboyism
[QUOTE=Gummylamb;22585558]The Ipad is as useful as the Touch
[/QUOTE]
Then why make an Ipad?
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