{"id":31801,"date":"2021-03-08T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31801"},"modified":"2021-03-08T19:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T00:45:13","slug":"rachel-true-vs-icloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/08\/rachel-true-vs-icloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel True vs. iCloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/icloud-true-last-name-lock-out-192224309.html\">Jon Fingas<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=26364993\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.slashdot.org\/story\/21\/03\/07\/0127247\/icloud-allegedly-locked-out-user-whose-last-name-is-a-boolean-value\">Slashdot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NGKabra\/status\/1368069088124149760\">Navin Kabra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/03\/07\/icloud-user-locked-out-for-six-months-over-coding-bug-related-to-her-last-name\/\">9to5Mac<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/icloud-true-last-name-lock-out-192224309.html\"><p>Actor and author Rachel True <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RachelTrue\/status\/1368004197166108676\">claims<\/a> iCloud has effectively locked her out of her account due to the way her last name was written. Reportedly, her Mac thought lower-case &ldquo;true&rdquo; was a Boolean (true or false) flag, leading the iCloud software on the computer to seize up. The problem has persisted for over six months, she said.<\/p>\n<p>True said she&rsquo;d spent hours talking to customer service, and that Apple hadn&rsquo;t stopped charging her for service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This sort of bug can happen either due to too much static typing or not enough.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/04\/apple-account-locked-due-to-failed-trade-in\/\">Apple Account Locked Due to Failed Trade-in<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/06\/stolen-instagram-account\/\">Stolen Instagram Account<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/25\/names-that-break-computers\/\">Names That Break Computers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Fingas (via Hacker News, Slashdot, Navin Kabra, 9to5Mac): Actor and author Rachel True claims iCloud has effectively locked her out of her account due to the way her last name was written. Reportedly, her Mac thought lower-case &ldquo;true&rdquo; was a Boolean (true or false) flag, leading the iCloud software on the computer to seize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-03-08T22:01:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"738a1049-6c6f-42f1-9eaa-7d54b53c7522","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-03-09T00:45:16Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ac4oQSWxvQvGeqn1UtTx1Ig","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[707,416,131,16,30,1891,71],"class_list":["post-31801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-id","tag-applecare","tag-bug","tag-icloud","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31802,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801\/revisions\/31802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}