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Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs
Orome1 writes "A file containing a million and one record sets containing Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) and some other general information about the devices has been made available online by Anonymous hackers following an alleged breach of an FBI computer. 'During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java,' the hackers claim."
Update: 09/04 13:44 GMT by T : A piece at SlashCloud points out that if the leak is genuine, this raises some sticky questions about privacy and security; in particular: "[H]ow did the agency obtain said information, and to what purpose? Why did all that personal data reside on the laptop of one special agent?"
How I feel when anonymous blabbers another leak: My Reaction.
Friends and followers on the Slashdort web site:
I am almost at a loss for words. What I have discovered in the past days has shaken my world-view to its foundations.
As you know, I have been a consistent, sometimes even strident voice denouncing whatI believed to be Italian subterfuge and infiltration against the Internet and related things, from soup to nuts as they say.
Then oneday, a few days ago, I was perusing oldfamily photo albums when I discovered a picture and birth-certificate of a heretofore unknown great great grandfather of mine!
His name -- I still can hardly belive it: Giuseppe Pescatore Puzzolo.
This changes everything.
Please bear with me, it will take time for me to extract the rational and revolutionary core ofmy liberating message from the cloud of anti-Italian confusion from which it once seemed so inseparable.
In the meantime, boungiorno a tutti!.
One thing remains solid in this disorienting spiritual earthquake: my undying love for you, Laura. Ciao!
UNITE with the Campaign for a Free Internet because today, our future begins with tomorrow!
It's the new ActiveX. Full of holes and unfortunately deployed all over the place and used by people who ought to know better.
Begone, Java plague!