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Melbourne Teen Hacked Into Apple's Secure Computer Network, Court Told (theage.com.au)
A Melbourne private schoolboy who repeatedly broke into Apple's secure computer systems is facing criminal charges after the technology giant called in the FBI. From a report: The teen, who cannot be named for legal reasons, broke into Apple's mainframe from his suburban home on multiple occasions over a year because he was such a fan of the company, according to his lawyer. The Children's Court heard on Thursday that he had downloaded 90GB of secure files and accessed customer accounts. His offending from the age of 16 saw him develop computerized tunnels and online bypassing systems to hide his identity until a raid on his family home uncovered a litany of hacking files and instructions all saved in a folder titled "hacky hack hack."
lame
"hacky hack hack" watch out for this kid, he means business
... going to jaily jail jail
Who here believes that Apple stores its data on a mainframe?
And, this kid will be making big bucks using his skills for Apple or some other tech giant.
until a raid on his family home uncovered a litany of hacking files and instructions all saved in a folder titled "hacky hack hack."
{cornpone down-homey voice}See, there's yer problem right there ... {/cornpone down-homey voice}
I feel really sorry for young hackers like this, who are just doing the exploration for fun and not really in it for espionage or destructive motives... this is one case where I really wish Apple would have hired him to do security testing and not sent his life on a downward spiral.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Hack me once, shame on you. Hack me twice... you can't get hacked again.
Hmmm, I don't that think that is the correct word their network.
Someone should proof read this article. My 5 month old great dane can write better than whoever put this dumpster fire together.
How did he access "The Mainframe"? Through unix Phishing?
Apparantly his "tunelling" and "bypassing" sk1llz were not so l337.
I mean how did they trace him back if he used them to "hide his identity"...
Classic "journalists". The kid probably guessed an ssh account and password and logged into some BSD box and downloaded whatever the thing had access to. Next thing you know he is a spy-master adolescent genius on the verge of hacking the planet into oblivion and seven SWAT teams, backed by tanks and F16s have to neutralize the "threat" to the Free World, the Purity Of American Bodily Fluids and Holy Corporate Profits....
Stop the presses! Extra! Extra! ...
Or really, editor too busy salivating over all the clicks another headline full of "hacking! hacks! hackers! wh0000!!1!" will get to pay any attention to anything else at all. Same with the apparently other completely illiterate idiots in the media that came near this "story".
Seriously thou from the sounds of it, I would wager he got into the internal network of a local Apple store
That's kind of what I was thinking as well, he wasn't really a HACKER hacker (despite what his folder naming would indicate). He was more just an explorer, a miner who delved too deep...
So Apple hiring him would not be so much to unveil technical secrets as more to explore what commercial/free exploits could be used to access Apple systems and then reverse engineer how those worked.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
How did Apple know the serial numbers of the computers that accessed their network?
Even the Aussies are hacking our computers - maybenow Trump will do something about it
Go fuck yourself.
1. The "hacky hack hack." folder was planted by the authorities.
2. The "hacky hack hack." folder was a decoy and the real files are somewhere else.
Apple has a mainframe?
Apple has secure computer networks!?
Mister Potatohead! Backdoors are not secrets!
I remember it only running on my Apple IIe. Honestly surprised a kid was (a) using a Macintosh PC and (b) knew enough to tunnel into Apple's servers.
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iCloud is generally nothing more than AWS or Azure instances.
The Register did an article on it ages ago.
It's why Apple STILL can't give proper data protection guarantees that even Google can give you (e.g. UK DPA / GDPR).
What a great folder name. This kid is going to go far in life.
all users' iCloud data just sits there unencrypted, ready to be filtered by personal details. Calling it secure is hilarious, and if you ever thought your stuff was secure and private with Apple, you were equally hilariously wrong.
iCloud data is end-to-end encrypted.
Now fuck off.
Everything on my computer is in VeraCrypt containers. I don't have anything to hide, but I know that if cops decide to look through my files, it is because they hope to find something, anything whereby they can build a case against me. If a cop or a judge demands my password, I will evoke the 5th. Dumb teenagers, dumb criminals!
https://www.itnews.com.au/news...
Perhaps the one that was publishing iPhone leaks for months?
Nah....
apparently to learn to hack you better go to a Russian academy these days
The title and the first paragraph are both self-contradictions. If he broke in, then the system was by definition not secure. I can't imagine what that journalist thinks the word "secure" means.
lol
An Australian court will at most give the kid a suspended sentence. Probably not even that.
But if they get him to the USA it is a long stretch in jail and a ruined life.
So that is extradition that is the key issue here. And of course he can never visit the USA.
and its still a insecure piece of shit.
He by-passed the security of others and failed to implement security on his own system; like an encrypted file-system.
A Melbourne private schoolboy who repeatedly broke into Apple's secure computer systems
he had downloaded 90GB of secure files
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
and its still a insecure piece of shit.
Prove it.
"The Fappening" was not the result of bad security; just stupid Passwords.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/03...
But just keep on spreadin' the Hate...
Oh, and phishing attacks do not rely on stupid passwords (they could have an 80 character password and still be phished), they rely on easily impersonating Apple and having a process that is easily hijacked.
If you saw 4chan or screenshots of trading pictures, you'd know it wasn't just that one guy doing just phishing for all of The Fappening.
Proof that apple is just fucking terrible at writing software.
My people use their shit is beyond me.
Thank god for apple there are a lot of tech ignorant people like falsetimmycook here to spread lies about apple.