It's amusing how they think this is bad, but kids being bullied into suicide on the internet constantly is treated like a back-burner issue. Just don't mess with our precious, precious celebrities.
You have to love how people are agreeing with that statement as if it makes sense. She must have Anna Nicole Smith's drug dealer. At least whoever did this hack had the decency to only release attractive stars' photos. It's already sleazy, but if somebody threw in Gretchen Carlson or hell even Alexis Arquette... The Internet would die.
I'm a little late to the game here, and I see my presence has been missed. Yes I saw the JLaw photos and got really excited. I was quietly looking at them on my computer while my GF was watching E! News and saw the "BREAKING NEWS" announcement. She said "Did you hear about this?!?! Your other lover has naked pictures leaked." "Oh I know, I'm looking at them now." She peered over, and saw unbridled joy on my face. She quickly became fake offended and said "Why don't you stop looking at naked girls on the internet and start having sex with the one on your bed?" In the middle of sex she jokingly said "Don't think about JLaw, you'll come too soon. HA!" I thought about JLaw and the joke was on her... I have no commentary on the moral implications of this event. I just hope that everyone is eventually okay. For the record the JLaw cumshots are fake. Our Glorious Angel Brought To Us From On High, Jennifer Lawrence does not allow cum to end up on her face. She swallows it like the Goddess she is.
There was apparently part of iCloud called Find My iPhone (I'm an Android user so I'm not sure) that allowed brute forcing. That hole has since been closed.
I've been reading about the brute force attack. This particular attack used an API that was designed for the Find My iPhone service, which allowed unlimited incorrect password guesses. Most services would lock you out after a few. Since it was an online brute force (i.e. submitting the API request over and over again), I have to wonder if it was a botnet controlled attack of some kind? It seems odd that someone could brute force an online service for hundreds of users in one day without a pretty large distributed attack. Offline brute force is at the limit of the processor. Online is much slower because it requires the service requests to be submitted over and over again... leading me to think they had a lot of computers working in tandem. Even if it was an API call and not a form submit, it's still orders of magnitude slower than an offline attack. If it was a botnet attack, it's less likely to be the work of a random asshole who ran across a 0-day, since the botnet had to be set up to start with and required compromising a lot of other machines to get there. Unless ALL of them really had such terrible passwords that they fell in the first however many hundred tries... Sheesh.
I'm reading reports it wasn't like a one day thing but has possibly been going on for some time. Edit: I would think it wouldn't be like a one day thing. It seems to me that you'd have to know which accounts to target, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if someone like Guccifer (not him obviously because he was arrested, but someone who hacked some celebrity emails) was involved, in order to get the iCloud usernames, etc. Perhaps the brute force only took a day (these are celebrities, they may or may not have decent passwords), but the background work, investigation, etc had to take longer. Or so it would seem to me.
I'm just going to say, regarding Bar Rafaeli, never in all my life have I considered a curling iron a masturbatory tool. Never once. Like I've considered it in the "Don't do that" mind, but never in the "heeeyyyyy...lookee heeeeerrree..." mind. Ever.
It's here! The link to the Jennifer Lawrence cumshot video: http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1102116387
And now we're onto one of my irrational fears. See. Because in the back of my mind I'm convinced that somehow even if it WERE NOT plugged in it would get hot and I would die. The end.