Chapter 9Security
You remember that one time when Apple was totally pwned by hackers?
Probably not, right? As of early 2018, it appears that neither Apple or any of its devices have ever been victimized by widespread hacking efforts. There was a scandal with some sensitive celebrity photos obtained from iCloud in 2014, but that turned out to be the result of phishing attacks, not a security weakness in iCloud. Dig in to other stories on the web and they often turn out to only affect jailbroken devices, or they have other non-technical explanations.
It’s kind of remarkable that Apple’s stuff has held up, considering what an attractive target they must be: hundreds of millions of credit cards stored in the iTunes Store, over a billion devices ...
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