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Apple's leaked iOS device IDs: what's scary and what's not

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Security experts and privacy groups have long criticised Apple’s decision to have their mobile devices assigned with permanent, unique identifiers called UDIDs. On Tuesday, those critics’ fears came to pass when the Anonymous-aligned hacktivist group AntiSec released a list of 1 million device IDs, allegedly pulled from an unencrypted file found on the laptop of an FBI agent.

AntiSec’s stated goal in posting the IDs was to expose that the FBI had them in the first place. But since the true source of the trove is now stuck in deadlock (Apple has denied handing over the IDs, and the FBI asserts it never had them in the first place), the more pressing matter has been exactly how UDIDs put the privacy and security of iOS device owners at risk — and how they don't.

In a recent article posted on CNET, Frank Heidt, chief executive of...

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Good Deal: Lost Photos for Mac is free today

Lost Photos, the Mac app that combs your email accounts for image files, is available for free all day Friday, and for $0.99 for the rest of the weekend. Ordinarily $2.99, the app automates downloading all the image attachments you’ve sent or received from your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, or iCloud /...

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Apple working on Pandora-like music service, WSJ reports

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting this evening that Apple is working on a streaming music service that would put it head-to-head with the likes of Pandora. Though this is a rumor that has come up several times over the past few years, there might be no better time to do it: the next iPhone, being announced next week, is widely assumed to incorporate LTE, which would allow such a service to stream at high quality and without interruption (WSJ also says it'll work on Mac, presumably through...


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Chinese students 'forced' to work on iPhone 5 sent back to school

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A bizarre and troubling story has come from China today. Both The Shanghai Daily and the CNR News radio station have reported that up to several thousand Chinese students were pulled out of school and into Foxconn to "work on the iPhone 5." There appear to be two separate sources, one of which originated on the social network Sina Weibo. That source claimed that around 200 students from Huaiyin Institute of Technology were driven from their...

Apple reportedly won't release new TV product this year due to content negotiations

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Although rumors of a new Apple TV box have heated up of late, a new report from Bloomberg throws cold water on the possibility. Apparently, though not surprisingly, talks with cable companies have not been going well due to a variety of issues — including whether Apple would have total control over the user interface and the exact structure of what rights deals Apple would need to strike to launch the product. Bloomberg says that the company...