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antisec, apple, christopher strangl, federal bureau of investigations, government corruption, ipad, iphone, national cyber-forensics and training alliance, police state, regional cyber action team, udid
It looks like the Federal Bureau of Investigations was tracking over 12 million iDevices for their online activity. Apparently, FBI cyber-OPSEC is also so bad that Antisec was able to get find and breach the laptop of the FBI Regional Cyber Action Team’s Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl through a Java exploit. They then dropped the UDIDs online but stripped personal data like “full names, cell numbers, addresses, zipcodes, etc.”
I don’t know what’s worse: that the FBI was tracking about 3.5% of the American population, or that their security is so bad that a bunch of hackers could give them this kind of punch in the face, or that – as the Cult of MAc site opines — Apple was directly involved in the surveillance. (They point out that the file name in which the information was stored could have been related to the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance, which “functions as a conduit between private industry and law enforcement.” Don’t you feel safer already?)
If you want to know if the FBI was watching you, here’s a site that will let you know if your device was under suspicion. If they don’t have a warrant for the surveillance, sue the crap out of them.
