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Average Apple product consumer with buyer's remorse.

This is what happens when you let Apple remotely control all of your hardware and software.

Apple is a company that does not respect your freedoms. They are the opposite of innovation. Their entire business is based on created walled gardens for its mentally challenged users. Their products are low quality and priced at double or higher compared to the "equivalent" generic hardware.

The average Apple product consumer is a mindless follower. This is obvious just from the fact that Apple's current success is completely based on their advertising campaign, and nothing more. When an Apple product consumer is confronted with basic premises such as their freedom, they respond with mentally challenged, almost forced replies that the type of person under the thumb of an oppressive regime would reply with. Their buyer's remorse is shown with every word they type.

Mat Honen is "hacked"

August 03, 2012, an Apple user named Mat Honen blogged about being "hacked" and having all of his devices remotely wiped, using Apple's iCloud service. The following is his account of the incident:

At 4:50 PM, someone got into my iCloud account, reset the password and sent the confirmation message about the reset to the trash. My password was a 7 digit alphanumeric that I didn’t use elsewhere. When I set it up, years and years ago, that seemed pretty secure at the time. But it’s not. Especially given that I’ve been using it for, well, years and years. My guess is they used brute force to get the password, and then reset it to do the damage to my devices.

The backup email address on my Gmail account is that same .mac email address. At 4:52 PM, they sent a Gmail password recovery email to the .mac account. Two minutes later, an email arrived notifying me that my Google Account password had changed.

At 5:00 PM, they remote wiped my iPhone

At 5:01 PM, they remote wiped my iPad

At 5:05, they remote wiped my MacBook Air.

A few minutes after that, they took over my Twitter. Because, a long time ago, I had linked my Twitter to Gizmodo’s they were then able to gain entry to that as well."

His entire incident was caused not by hacking or bruteforce, as he claims, but through his own incompetence. Apple would lock his account after three failed attempts, therefore the password, which was obviously just a dictionary password (as he admitted) that he uses for every login, was very likely used by Mat Honen to log in to a basic phishing site.

The entire incident proves how insecure Apple's products are, and how user failure just makes the whole situation worse.

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