well maybe..
if you're on of the 12,000,000 iphone/ipad users involved..
I DO think it's important that people be alerted to these things.. not
everyone has nefarious intentions or would feel compromised, however when
your camera (or phone, depending how you choose to look at it ;) has been
illegally hacked you at least may want to know about it. And if the reader
views the hackers as the 'good' guys, then if good guys can hack them, so
can those with less noble intentions.
I mentioned before Apple's decision to use UDID's in their phones even
though they were aware of the security risk - now it' up to users to decide
if they are worth the risk, but the user needs no know what the risk is.
"It could turn out to be a very bad week for Apple and the FBI"
http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/alleged-apple-udid-hack-raises-potential-privacy-questions-for-fbi/
" AntiSec had stolen more than 12 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers
(UDIDs) for iOS devices from an FBI agent's laptop. .. those attackers
offered download links to what they claimed were 1 million of those IDs,
which are linked to individual devices.
the hackers themselves claim:
"During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by
Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber
Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached
using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell
session some files were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with
the name of "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" turned to be a list of 12,367,232
Apple iOS devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names,
name of device, type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens,
zipcodes, cellphone numbers, addresses, etc. "
