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App Developer Says Stolen UDIDs Came From Them, Not FBI
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)."
Or maybe that you just can't trust Blue Toad, who got paid behind the scenes to take the fall for this.
Or maybe that was a double fake, and that this whole thing was set up as a distraction by Google to undermine iPhone.
Or maybe it was actually stolen by the EFF, who then spoofed an FBI operation for Anonymous to find so that they could promote their agenda.
(Or maybe you're completely right)
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?
Take a look at the website of the researcher who did the legwork here. He even gives a detailed description of the advanced tools he used (cut and sort :-P) to elide the source.
http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2012/09/tracking-udid-src/
You're forgetting the fact that it was Obama's fault all along.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
...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).
It could also be that the developer got hacked w/o being involved with the FBI in any way, prior to the attack.
Which, on the whole, is a lot simpler explanation than a conspiracy theory.
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