A bit more about the 114,000 iPad users whose email addresses were apparently exposed by a little low-grade hacking by the Goatse group – I mentioned the issue here yesterday.
USA Today quotes Sean Sullivan of F-Secure, among others, in “Security experts: Apple, AT&T share blame for security breach.”
Goatse have responded to criticism in their blog at http://security.goatse.fr/blog/?p=5.
And I was quoted by Richard Adhikari of TechNewsWorld in “AT&T Takes Heat for iPad Who’s Who List Leak.”
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