I think hacking is a term that is used loosely to mean any kind of security compromise. It's used mostly by the media who are communicating with a market that in the lowest common denominator would not be able to define the difference between a hack and a crack, or a virus and a trojan. That is why I believe this is the result of some kind of key logging trojan. If someone found a way to successfully hack an iTunes store account, the number would not be 55,000 it would be more like 5,000,000.
Bob On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > Maybe but is there actual proof of hacking - or could this be the far more > likely human trait of stupidity? > Perhaps these 50,000 accounts just belong to the numpties whose password = > 'password', '12345' or similar? > > On 7 Jan 2011, at 16:57, Colin Holgate wrote: > >> >> On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> >>> The same password in AES-256 would take 1.2 million years. >> >> >> From Wikipedia: >> >> A device that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second would >> in theory require about 3×1051 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode