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Anti Federalist
09-03-2014, 10:08 AM
Oh, and the "Find My iPhone" tracking feature is used as well.

Technology joy.


The Police Tool That Pervs Use to Steal Nude Pics From Apple’s iCloud

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/eppb-icloud/

As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend, blame for the scandal has rotated from the scumbag hackers who stole the images to a researcher who released a tool used to crack victims’ iCloud passwords to Apple, whose security flaws may have made that cracking exploit possible in the first place. But one step in the hackers’ sext-stealing playbook has been ignored—a piece of software designed to let cops and spies siphon data from iPhones, but is instead being used by pervy criminals themselves.

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Apple’s security nightmare began over the weekend, when hackers began leaking nude photos that included shots of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and Kirsten Dunst. The security community quickly pointed fingers at the iBrute software, a tool released by security researcher Alexey Troshichev designed to take advantage of a flaw in Apple’s “Find My iPhone” feature to “brute-force” users’ iCloud passwords, cycling through thousands of guesses to crack the account.

tod evans
09-03-2014, 10:14 AM
Hmmm,

Wonder if the MSM will report this? :rolleyes:

Brian4Liberty
09-03-2014, 10:18 AM
The Police (and prosecutors and Judges) have always had pervs in their ranks that use these back-doors for their own fun.

tod evans
09-03-2014, 10:19 AM
The Police (and prosecutors and Judges) have always had pervs in their ranks that use these back-doors for their own fun.

Right down there with baby-rapers in my book.....

Anti Federalist
09-03-2014, 10:20 AM
The Police (and prosecutors and Judges) have always had pervs in their ranks that use these back-doors for their own fun.

Snowden: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos

"These are seen as the fringe benefits of surveillance positions," Snowden says.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/snowden-nsa-employees-routinely-pass-around-intercepted-nude-photos/

thoughtomator
09-03-2014, 10:23 AM
I totally nailed the culprit as the government on this one. But we're going to see several of those clueless, clothes-less celebs doing govt propaganda anyway.

Anti Federalist
09-03-2014, 10:57 AM
Police Software Used In Apple’s iCloud Security Breach to Leak Nude Celeb Photos

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-software-apples-icloud-security-breach/#wJc6iWRlBreP9YIs.99

A major security breach in Apple’s iCloud network occurred this week, leaking nude photographs and private information from a number of celebrities. One detail about this case that has been largely overlooked by the mainstream media is the fact that this security breach was made possible by police software that was highjacked by hackers.

According to Wired, hackers openly discussed using a piece of software called EPPB or Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker to download their victims’ data from iCloud backups.

These details were revealed on the web forum Anon-IB, one of the primary sites that is used for hosting hacked material of this nature. The software is created by a company called Elcomsoft, and it is made specifically for law enforcement and government agents.