Fake Apple rep amasses 620,000+ stolen iCloud pics, vids in hunt for images of nude women to trade A California man this month admitted he hoarded hundreds of thousands of photos and videos stolen from strangers' Apple iCloud accounts to find and share images of nude young women. Prosecutors in Florida had charged [PDF] Hao Kuo Chi, 40, of Los Angeles County, who uses the first name David, with conspiracy and computer fraud …
Sadly, hacking doesn't mean what it used to mean. In the not too distant past, a "hacker" was an IT wisz who could do things beyond the mere mortals who used computers.
Today, it's been demoted to general "not good people". I guess most folks don't understand the word "miscreant".
Dont make it easy?
Have you seen how many CVE’s get listed nowadays?
They can’t even get logic done properly how on Earth are they gonna get a proper secure framework together
Dont hold your breath
I got about a million different 2FA methods for my gmail, I dont need or asked for, one of those methods is text message. Tech companies employ smart but stupid people who lack common sense
When I read that, my very first thought was that 'foreign' adds nothing to the understanding of the type and scope of 'end-to-end encryption.' It seems purely there either because of personal bigotry or attempts to incite the same xenophobia among the jury.
Either way, very bad form, Mr. Prosecutor.
Actually, I did think of one non-bigoted reason that could have been intended - that 'domestic' E2E would have somehow been less effective at preventing snooping by the DA. That thought doesn't make me any happier though than the previous.
I suspect it was my earlier suspicion, that the intent was to spin a bad light on E2E encryption a tool used only by ne'er-do-wells, and the fact that it was 'foreign' was just thrown in there to make it seem even _more_ nefarious to xenophobic mindsets.
Half the human race is female and they're all nude under their clothing. In short, "You've seen one, you've seen them all". There's different standards of beauty and there's also the context but just collecting random pictures....what an extraordinary waste of time and storage space.
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