>An Australian high school student repeatedly hacked into Apple servers, succeeding in downloading 90GB of what were described as ‘secure files.’ The teenage boy also reportedly accessed customer accounts.
Yada yada boy wonder. Right, but here's the interesting part:
>His access is said to include ‘authorised keys [which] grant log-in access to users.’
This really shouldn't be possible. You don't see fuckups like this in small companies, how on earth can a company with a trillion dollar market cap do this? They can literally afford the best of the best whitest of the white scientists to make sure this shit is secure. And I'm supposed to believe a 16 year old broke through this? Look I was a smart 16 year old, half of you here probably are 16 -- some I assume are smart people, but a 16 year old still has plenty to learn, and with this guy's limited knowledge, still got through? This tells me it wasn't some sophisticated timing attack, or a cryptographic breakthrough, but Apple being insanely fucking stupid. Again.
But wait... there's more. So being a 16 year old, he got caught:
>Two Apple laptops were seized and the serial numbers matched the serial numbers of the devices which accessed the internal systems.
>A mobile phone and hard drive were also seized and the IP address … matched the intrusions into the organisation.
So there we have it. Apple is logging the serial numbers of its users on a periodic basis and maintaining a history. Everyone here assumes that, but here is your confirmation. Also note that it is clearly done frequently enough that the FBI were able to correlate it to the VPN he was using, so it's unlikely a once every week, or once every update. Moral of the story is, that if you're using a fagbook, at least do your "hacking" from a VPN running inside a VM that is running an OS you can trust.
>Amusingly, the downloaded material was saved in a folder titled ‘hacky hack hack.’
