[ale] Now this is just bloody frightening as all hell!

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 12:16 PM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On 08/07/2012 11:17 AM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>> I'm sure a number of us are already aware of this incident.  It was even
>> mentioned at last nights AUUG meeting about a reporter getting hacked
>> and wiped back to the stone age.
>
> Wow.
>
> I don't even have anything more to say than that.
>
> The answer... at least, in addition to the endless and seemingly
> pointless education of end-users, is for a company that actually has a
> security clue to run such services.  There should have been many more
> obstacles in the crackers' way.

I think the observation here is that Apple and Amazon get a big, fat
"F" in user access security.

>
>         --- Mike
>
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