Dan oh i. Security concerns continue around the a t t and t i fed three g. device called scandalous expect a little from federal looks it out falls and news ahead of the fourth probably phone and it's out west. It's monday june fourteenth two thousand ten i'm ken ready and this is news from mac o. s. can. Brought to you by yours truly n supported by listeners like you subscribers to mac o. s. can they six more information is available at mac o. s. canon dot com. The shows also supported by d. mac o. s. can broadcast out for the i phone an i pod touch available and the f store now for two dollars and ninety nine percent. More talk over the weekend from the security researchers slash hackers who skimmed email addresses of a t and t i bad customers from the dat star. I told you last week of the roughly one hundred fourteen thousand private email addresses by that owners who'd registered their new machines with a t and t for three g. service. Now mac world you ok has guilty security the guys behind the experiment slash keeper saying that their actions were ethical and that they did nothing illegal. Ensure our nightmare a member of the group says we believe what we did was ethical what we did was right the u case i just go to wait until a t and t had close the whole before revealing its findings. Aren't timer says the release constitutes a responsible disclosure the term given to security revelations made public only after the discovered vulnerability has been fixed. Says aren't high murder we follow the disclosure process which is more than you can say for at least a third of security researchers. It was in the public interest to have this just close. And yet it seems that one could argue as does a t and t that go to was acting as much in self interest as it was in the public's and the a t and t's. According to macro view cake guilty didn't contact a t and t with info on the vulnerability rather they contacted the third party which contact the v p n t. So they'd guilty could publicize the email exposure once it was fixed go t- says it contact the number of media outlets who's employee showed up on the list of email addresses they uncovered including fox news reuters and others. They did not respond so then group turn the old apple bell gall cr- media. Because according to our nightmare they were the only one willing to dedicate resources to the story. Rate ethical and i mentioned earlier a t and t would disagree and did an email to customers who's emails were lifted. Kevin send me a copy of the email he got which has the best are saying in part. On june seven we learned it on authorise computer hackers malicious flea exploited to function designed to make your eye pad login process faster. Like for you populate again the a t and t authentication base with the email address you used to register your i. bad for three g. service. Further down the page at
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