While the hacking in question may have been a dubious task in itself, the fact that all of this information was being held on an FBI computer is what bothers me most about this article. If they were really monitoring something as innocent-seeming as Apple products, what else could they watching?
Hacker group AntiSec has published what it claims is about 1 million unique device identifier numbers (UDIDs) for Apple devices that it said it accessed earlier this year from a computer belonging to an FBI agent.
The group, which is a splinter operation of the Anonymous hacking collective, claims that it has culled more than 12 million UDIDs and personal data linking the devices to users from the FBI computer. AntiSec said it chose to publish a portion of those records to prove it has them. Continue Reading
