Where the Apple accounts that hackers are threatening to wipe came from
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So what's the analogous tl;dr for account management? Don't use passwords like "mysecretpassword", and don't reuse them?
So maybe, "use a local password manager"?
Was reading this thread right after the thread on John Goodenough. There are different things that happen as one gets older that one wishes didn't. Still, it beats the alternative.
After you have given your mouth time to return to a healthy pH, feel free to brush your teeth.
Well good, that's how I've been doing it.
Until you lose the database, then things become really difficult.
I hope we get to the point where authentication doesn't rely on the human memory at all.
Anyone happen to know why the reference to 95? I can't quite remember anything particularly special about that year to make it a common password for people.
I have a hard time believing these are legitimately the most common passwords. Compare that to a list like this:
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-most-commonly-hacke....
20. 3rjs1la7qe
Seems like a word but not sure which language. Only interesting password in the list.
It's a shame you can't have Find My Mac active without also allowing remote wipe. So I disabled Find My Mac for myself.
I would posit that most people engaged in cyber crime are not hackers, from the botnet owners who literally paid for and downloaded a tool with instructions, to the people who install skimmers, to carding merchants, people running protection rackets, email scammers, etc. A small number of people actually "hack" into a system using any form of advanced skill in order to do things like extract accounts like those in the article.
What definition of hacker are you using here? I know we're on Hacker News, but in the cybersecurity context hacker refers to someone who hacks into a system, which would mean hackers commit crimes by definition.
EDIT: I pasted the wrong thing
According to Wikipedia, the ages of the people arrested in connection with LulzSec were (sorted): 16 17 18 19 19 20 21 21 23 24 24 29. Plenty of teen representation there, and even low 20s is still pretty young. (Those ages are at the time of arrest, but most of the arrests were in 2011, the same year LulzSec was founded, so they would have been about the same age when they committed the crimes - albeit likely younger when they first got into the 'scene'.)
Similarly, Lizard Squad: 16 17 17 22. (Main activities were in 2014; ages adjusted based on the number of years between then and the news articles specifying the ages.)
Neither of those groups were terribly sophisticated (mainly performing DDoS attacks), but neither is the person(s) in the present case, who just culled passwords from old leaks and got the media to make a fuss.
Anyway, getting arrested ≠ committing crimes. To get arrested, you have to (a) go after a high-profile target and (b) successfully attack them (where DDoS counts as an attack). Lots of kids do things like DoSing personal rivals (and their Minecraft servers), which is definitely a crime but unlikely to result in an arrest. The younger, the more petty...
The majority of hackers in the modern day do what they do for financial gain. Among that group things are more even. But the skilled hackers, those that develop and use 0days, will skew older because it takes time and experience to reach that level.
Took a while, but finally got it: "where the Apple accounts (hackers are threatening to wipe) came from"
Interestingly, now that I parsed it, I can't see why it took so long.
That said, "where the Apple accounts that hackers are threatening to wipe came from" would likely have been more obvious.
Twitter should not allow their platform to be used by self professed criminals.