It's been 48 hours since the biggest leak of private nude photos of celebrities in history, an event called "the Fappening". Details begin to emerge about what happened. At the same time, some require blood and who want to know "whose fault" it was. It is more complex than that.
"Whose fault?"
This was the question I've heard most about the massive leak of nude photos this week. It is a bit more complicated than denounce the pirates and think the world is black and white. Yes, they did - leaking private photos - was illegal. But if the same thing had happened in the course of an investigation on the application of the law, the same leak would happen legally.
To top off this consideration, we know that employees of the NSA are regularly intercepted nude pictures in transit, moving them around, considering private photos look the other a benefit of employment.
so it is not as easy as saying that people fleeing the pictures are criminals, while others can do so legally, and other government agencies to do all the time, including right now. The difference here was not part of the action, but one that has taken the action. Will do it wrong? Yes. Would he still be wrong if the NSA did? Yes. But it would be legal. Or at least quite legal. Is it wrong of Apple to make way sloppy security so that both the NSA and the hacker could easily get naked photos? Aha, now we're getting somewhere.
This is a story playing on the moral level, technical and legal simultaneously.
At present, the archive with images of The Fappening is the most common and torrent on The Pirate Bay over seeded in all categories, sporting a record 36.738 seeders. This demonstrates very clearly that everything that goes on the net stays on the net.
What happened was that a new Apple interface, one called "Find My iPhone", allowed an unlimited number of password attempts failed with no time limit between them. This allowed people to try literally millions and millions of pass their target words, all on automatic until they fell on the only password happened to be correct. Once they had, they were able to download the entire contents of their target iPhones to their own computers.
It is safe to assume that there were more than photos that were leaked. We have seen the tip of the iceberg.
Apple, meanwhile, reacted to this by saying that the people who had their photos leak should have stronger passwords and two-factor authentication. While technically true - you still need to use two-factor authentication, as it helps to thwart such attacks - it is far from good enough Apple in this case. You do not blame the victims of botched your own safety even if your victims could have done a better job, too.
The NSA are actually more to blame here. They confused "protect us" with "need to hack a system," and so, suddenly, they forgot their original mission, being blinded by the ability to penetrate systems and networks. But NSA backup capacity to penetrate means that systems remain vulnerable, and we less safely after the Fappening is an excellent example. if the NSA had done their job, they would have discovered the vulnerability and Apple informed in no uncertain terms that this was not secure, but it's not what they do. they do exactly the opposite they discovered the vulnerability and let it stay hidden
.. and Apple blames its victims. the only thing they can be blamed for is to have a poor sense of hygiene information to trust Apple with their unencrypted data, and for sensitive data unencrypted in a cloud service to all.
Victim-blaming, even partially, is not something you should never do lightly. At the same time, the lack of basic security practices has implications in the real world. If you are reckless with the PIN number on your ATM card, the blame is placed squarely on your shoulders and only yours if someone uses your ATM card with your PIN - even if the flight is firmly illegal and a police report is filed, it is still considered your fault that it happened. We must come to a similar understanding with sloppy privacy protection, while at the same time subject corporations that do not take the responsibility of private data entrusted to them now.
Overall, the fault here lies mainly with Apple and not his (yes, Apple) victims. No company should have safety as sloppy to allow millions of password attempts in a short time without raising any kind of red flag. Apple should certainly have formal responsibility here. At the same time, he denies any such responsibility, and not only that, he tries to divert attention from its new phone that wants to be a portfolio. A little trust issue there.
now that Apple said they are not responsible to protect against attacks ... well known here, a new phone that wants to be a wallet
- davi (德海) (@ daviottenheimer) September 3, 2014
Your position, meanwhile, need to be that you need to protect yourself against not only sloppy companies, but also from legal leak your private data. Consider this carefully: you must protect your private data from legal seizure by law enforcement, which will effectively make it public. If you do this, you will protect yourself against illegal leaks as a pure bonus. In other words, encrypt all.
Some people express the Fappening would not be a problem if we did not consider women's bodies and occasional nude photos to be hiding something first. This has some truth to it; things that not everyone ultimately loses its taboo
- Of course I inhaled "Yes, but I breathe" Bill Clinton 1992
. ". This was the point "- Barack Obama, 06
However, this observation dodge the real issue - there will always be private data, leaking, can be used against the individual concerned can. that nudes are not sensitive in the future, but it does not matter. it has always been, and always will be private data that can be used in political or financial extortionate situations in case of leakage. consider that the attack vector used herein was against a positioning service. the one who got the phone data also obtained a complete log of movements of the victims. I would say it is much more sensitive than occasional naked pictures
health information. - Awareness of how to store and transmit your data -.. are not something that can be ignored is mandatory in some areas, it is literally a skill survival. Meanwhile, the media continues to ignore these security basics: at the end of the day, it is remarkably discouraging a catastrophic leak of private life only gets media attention it merit if someone masturbates to it
unencrypted data that is stored or sent from the computer of someone else are not more data. It is that simple.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
0 Komentar