iPad 'vulnerability': A Reality Check

I was asked by our PR team today whether that was a story on the recent iPad ‘vulnerability’ that is doing the rounds in both the tech and mainstream media. The vulnerability was found by Goatse Security (great name guys) and is being pitched as ‘Apple’s worse security breach’. The situation has got massively out of hand, I recieved a number of emails from worried staff today and I’ve even read that the FBI are investigating ‘the cyberthreat posed by this exposure’. This is a classic example of security researchers using FUD to manipulate the media for publicity’s sake. The media is complicit as well, while what they are reporting is factually true, the apocolyptic impacts they are espousing are laughable. The reality is that the only story is that there isn’t really a story at all.

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