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App Developer Says Stolen UDIDs Came From Them, Not FBI

Posted by samzenpus on from the who's-to-blame dept.

pdabbadabba writes "A Florida iPhone and iPad app developer, Blue Toad, has come forward claiming that it is the source of the Apple UDIDs previously released by Anonymous. Their dataset, they say, is a 98% match for the one Anonymous hackers claim to have stolen from an FBI laptop. If so, this development would cast serious doubt on Anonymous' claims and, possibly, calm fears that this data is evidence of an ongoing FBI surveillance operation (a claim the FBI has also denied)."

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  1. Hm... by JustAnotherIdiot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which side to believe when both sides are known liars?

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    What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
    1. Re:Hm... by Gaygirlie · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I was just thinking the same: Anonymous have time and again lied about stuff, but so has the FBI and the FBI could just have paid Blue Toad to take the blame or made some other deal with them. Can't know, really, and with that in mind I'll just assume maliciousness from both parties.

    2. Re:Hm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Oh this is getting funny.

      Ridiculously unlikely conspiracy theory get blown out of the water? Not a problem... just double-down on the crazy!

      Let's see if I've got this straight. So the FBI and Apple are secretly in collusion to provide LE with a database of increasingly-useless UUID's, and the FBI stored this super-secret database in-the-clear on a laptop, the database was stolen from the FBI, but they somehow know the people that did it can't demonstrate that, so they secretly paid a 3rd party a big sum of cash to take a nasty PR hit, knowing the public (excepting those unusually perceptive slashdotters) would buy he cover story since it's, you know, far more likely to have happened that way in the first place.

      Have I got it?

  2. Re:The real question! by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The next question: What was Blue Toad up to? Why did the FBI have a copy of their data? How many FBI back doors are their in Blue Toads apps?

    Read the story. The data was stolen off of Blue Toad's servers. The FBI wasn't part of this at all. Anonymous lied.

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    #DeleteChrome
  3. Re:Blue Toad is a liar? Believe the SIMPLEST answe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The original claim that the list came from the FBI is an amazing act of trolling. There are way too many people who not only believe that the instant they hear it, but will never let it drop, regardless of how much other evidence or pieces of the story come out.

  4. Re:And that company is... by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...and it could just as easily be a case where the FBI requested this list from Blue Toad, or Blue Toad submitted this list as part of an investigation. All we know now is where the data likely originated -- which is precisely where everyone assumed it originated anyway (a single developer list).

  5. Re:Dont trust anonymous by hemo_jr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a true conspiracy nut, I would not put it past 1. the FBI to have gotten its data from Blue Toad or 2. Blue Toad covering up for the FBI.