Turkish security researcher claims responsibility for Apple dev center hack

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/22/turkish-researcher-apple-hack/

by braum • 13 years ago

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millerm• 13 years ago

"Security researcher" who needs to learn a lot about ethics and just proper procedure. It's already been said, but it's pretty lame to grab all those accounts, then make a video of some of the data and display it to the world. Poor form, Sir. Poor form.

josh26004• 13 years ago

I agree. Everything about this stinks.

Further, I'm not one to put folks into stereotypes based upon where they're from, but I do note the exceptional security violation earlier this year related to the Google Certificate being compromised by a Turkish ISP. Not that the two are related, but that's my most recent thought with respect to Turkish Security research.

theboywho• 13 years ago

I'm not one to put folks into stereotypes based upon where they're from

You are definitely putting folks into stereotypes based upon where they're from.

This was probably not ethical, but he sure could have been anyone in the world.

The probability that a certain person be "unethical" is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

egeozcan• 13 years ago

I haven't enough information about the ethics of this situation so I won't comment on that. However, you exactly sound like person who "puts folks into stereotypes" in your last two sentences. Come on, even Apple's servers get compromised as what all this fuss is about, are you trying to be ironic when you judge a whole industry in a country by a security breach in one of its ISPs? If he's not a security researcher but rather a "security researcher", following your steps, what kind of position does this put Apple and the American IT Industry?

mtrimpe5• 13 years ago

OK. That's completely unnecessary and racist; very racist.

Please take a couple of minutes to reflect on how wrong what you just did here really is.

ozgune• 13 years ago

You're inferring a casual relationship from two unrelated data points across a particular year.

So if I find two security violations (there's one like every other week) originating from the US across a random year, does that mean Americans are unethical?

gojomo• 13 years ago

One possibility: his report made Apple aware of a hole that someone else was exploiting more deeply.

ChuckMcM• 13 years ago

I've wondered about this as well. Its possible his behavior showed them the pattern and then when they went through their logs they saw more of it from before he started. Or they could just be in a delayed reaction mode.

txutxu• 13 years ago

Maybe you don't like the disclosure style.

Maybe you don't like the place of the heart where he was born.

Maybe you wouldn't like to be him, neither his procedures.

Meh, even I dislike the O.S. he uses.

But anyway, the fact is there. And I will not be the one who kills the messenger.

Bravo, "Turkish security researcher".

briandear• 13 years ago

At least it wasn't that annoying Kaspersky nut, We never would have heard the end of it.

AsymetricCom• 13 years ago

I guess nuts make the best antivirus.

akadien3• 13 years ago

He didn't discover a vulnerability. He hacked Apple, got scared, and tried to save his ass.

kiiski3• 13 years ago

How do you hack something without discovering a vulnerability? Assuming that there are no known vulnerabilities.

akadien3• 13 years ago

Ok, technically you are correct. Good job. What I meant is he wasn't hacking benevolently to discover vulnerabilities to promote world peace and economic development for poor orphans and endangered species.

michaelwww• 13 years ago

Turkish security researcher Ibrahim Balic hacked my facebook the other night and posted some drunk ramblings. That guy is a real pistol when he drinks.

narzac• 13 years ago

Check out his early interview, http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/id/25369117/, I think he wanna be famous :P

Turkish security researcher claims responsibility for Apple dev center hack

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