...I still wonder whether this is evidence of Apple security being compromised (big problem for all) versus a simple numbers game exploiting user stupidity/laziness (more fool them).
A web-crawler captures publicly listed email addresses, these then get tested as iTunes logins, coupled with the top-10 worst passwords. The surprising stat would be if there are merely 50,000 iTunes users that are that sufficiently stupid and/or lazy? There are probably more than 50,000 youtube videos showing monitors in the background that are covered in post-its with passwords and banking details! :-) On 7 Jan 2011, at 17:28, Bob Sneidar wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
