How did 12 million Apple device IDs end up with FBI?

[dixiegrrrrl]

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AntiSec hackers leak 1,000,001 Apple device IDs allegedly obtained from FBI breach

The AntiSec hacking group claims to have released a set of more than 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching the FBI.

The group claims to have over 12 million IDs,as well as personal information such as user names, device names, notification tokens, cell phone numbers and addresses.

They published the UDID numbers to call attention to suspicions that the FBI used the information to track citizens.
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/04/antisec-hackers-leak-1000001-apple-device-ids-allegedly-obtained-fbi-breach/

Update: The TNW tech team has built a tool to let you check whether your device was included in the list.
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/04/heres-check-apple-device-udid-compromised-antisec-leak/

story also on The Atlantic Wire:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/09/what-was-fbi-doing-12-million-apple-ids-anyway/56492/

[randome]

1. Don't believe everything you read.

Sure, the FBI can't exactly be trusted. But neither can anonymous hackers. May as well flip a coin.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Using your logic...

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"Don't believe everything you read".
I can trust a coin flip to determine the veractiy of your statement.

Since I got the story off the Apple website, it has a certain credibilty.
Correction:
The Atlantic Wire
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/09/what-was-fbi-doing-12-million-apple-ids-anyway/56492/

Meanwhile, the group has posted on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AnonymousIRC

[SunsetDreams]

9. How is "TNW" Apples website?

It's a serious question, I wasn't aware the two companies were related.


Here is Apples website http://www.apple.com/

What you linked to is The Next Web(TNW)

Since I got the story off the Apple website, it has a certain credibilty.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Too many windows open...thnx for pointing that out.

[randome]

11. My point is that the hackers claim one thing, the FBI says they didn't get the IDs from them.

Now maybe the FBI is trying to mitigate the problem and lying but, hey, anonymous hackers lie, too.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. I hear ya..

And what I was saying was that Anonymous is claiming credit.
And has posted ways to look at the data.


AnonymousIRC ?@AnonymousIRC
@KimZetter They did not deny that.

FBI apparently said that "at this time they have no evidence". That is far from denial; they don't know.

https://twitter.com/AnonymousIRC

[CountAllVotes]

2. Glad I don't own any of these expenive toys

Made in China = easy to hack IMO.

[hlthe2b]

5. Right... as I am paying for TWO concurrent full internet security packages for my windows PC's AND

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STILL have to periodically scan with two additional dupe malware/trojan detectors, since even the most cautious practices are far from completely protective if one uses the internet at all.

yeah, the non apple products are surely so much MORE secure.

[CountAllVotes]

8. Yep

Its a lot of work keeping computer up-to-date and all of these scans and crap you have to run all of the time.

I'm glad I don't have any equipment that is real up-to-date.

I have an old laptop that remembers nothing but it still works oddly. Has Windows 2000 on it which is a dinosaur.

[datasuspect]

3. we get the government we deserve

no one wants to fight for social justice, civil rights, government encroachment on privacy, then live with it, deal with it.

point being, shut off the fucking devices, eat the teevees, and GO AT THEM bro.

[leveymg]

6. Try plotting a 21st Cen. rebellion without a cell phone, laptop and TV.

Think about it.

The problem is, the same technology makes it so easy to monitor, ID, profile and map out anyone and everyone who's trying to do it.

[datasuspect]

7. you can't lynch wall street capitalist gangsters with an iPhone

there is no app for that.

rope or neckties work better.

[leveymg]

10. You can't get within 300 meters to do it that way, either.

Lynchings are for Klansmen. I hope your comment was just hyperbole.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. which is why THIS is unsettling

Apple has patented a piece of technology which would allow government and police to block transmission of information, including video and photographs, from any public gathering or venue they deem “sensitive”, and “protected from externalities.”

­In other words, these powers will have control over what can and cannot be documented on wireless devices during any public event.

And while the company says the affected sites are to be mostly cinemas, theaters, concert grounds and similar locations, Apple Inc. also says “covert police or government operations may require complete ‘blackout’ conditions.”

so far the only link I have found is on RT
http://rt.com/news/apple-patent-transmission-block-408/

[leveymg]

15. Local area cell phone transmission jammers been around for years - not Apple proprietary technology

Such devices are sold commercially to anyone in law enforcement with an FCC license.

I'm more concerned about the gov't's ability to selectively take down thousands of websites simultaneously in the event of an "emergency." That would leave e-commerce unaffected, while silencing the opposition. Like our good buddies, China and Saudi Arabia.