>> Hopefully Apple will patch quick and remind us why they are security superheroes while Windows still is vulnerable to Crypto and ICE and a few dozen ransom wares that have been out for over a year.
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> Right in the article is the line:
> "seem to involve any malware or malicious activity on the device itself"
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> I don't understand your heading -- what has happened is neither a virus nor is it Ransomware. Instead it is a person who has been able to take control of the iDevice from a remote location through using Apple's own anti-theft protocol.
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> Yes it is asking for a ransom, but true ransomware is a piece of software which is loaded onto your device and then takes control until you pay the ransom.
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> This is just a clever person outsmarting Apple's own "lock this device if it gets lost or stolen" protocol.
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> How exactly do you expect Apple to patch things so that this can't happen?
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> David H. Bailey
More relevantly, since it is apparently NOT a defect in iCloud security, how can Apple patch "users so stupid as to use the same password for iCloud as elsewhere" ?
Posted by: Jim Saklad <jimdoc@icloud.com>
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