{"id":5590,"date":"2012-08-07T20:35:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2024-08-01T11:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:38:38","slug":"my-apple-id-episode-from-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/my-apple-id-episode-from-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"My Apple ID Episode From 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2012\/08\/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking\/\">Mat Honan&rsquo;s story<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/markokarppinen.com\/post\/28762065189\/my-apple-id-episode-from-2008\">Marko Karppinen<\/a> shares his story from 2008 in which &ldquo;Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked.&rdquo; Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onefoottsunami.com\/2012\/08\/07\/getting-honaned\/\">Paul Kafasis<\/a>, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.onefoottsunami.com\/2012\/08\/07\/getting-honaned\/\"><p>As long as Apple believes the last four digits of your credit card are enough to verify you, however, your Apple ID is definitely not safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An Apple ID is pretty much required these days, but you can at least limit the potential damage. Don&rsquo;t use iCloud&rsquo;s e-mail account, even as a backup address supplied to other services. Honan&rsquo;s Gmail was compromised because the password recovery e-mail went to his me.com address. And <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/04\/find-my-mac-and-remote-wipe\/\">don&rsquo;t enable Find My Mac<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Mat Honan&rsquo;s story, Marko Karppinen shares his story from 2008 in which &ldquo;Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked.&rdquo; Via Paul Kafasis, who writes: As long as Apple believes the last four digits of your credit card are enough to verify you, however, your Apple ID is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-08-01T15:38:41Z","apple_news_api_id":"29e4b55a-2603-444b-9d88-559efc3fd5a7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-08-01T15:38:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKeS1WiYDREudiFWe_D_Vpw","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],"class_list":["post-5590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-id"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590","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=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5594,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions\/5594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}