This time it’s bad, approximately 114 000 iPad owners have had private information breached. We’re talking CEO’s, military officials and many important politicians. So what happened?

Not too long after the iPad release Goatse Security, a group who has found real vulnerabilities in Firefox and Safari, discovered that when sending the ICC-ID in a HTTP request, you could receive unencrypted information back. The ICC-ID is a unique identifier for SIM cards and could be guessed based on known ICC-IDs. The only requirement besides having ID’s was spoofing your user agent to that of an iPad.

AT&T seem to be the guys at fault here and have closed the hole. Unfortunately, before Goatse published their findings apparently the script used for harvesting confidential information was shared with a number of third-parties prior to the patch having been released.

So who’s affected? Many individuals, and even more shockingly the CEO of NY Times, Time Inc, Dow Jones and many others. Even the US government and military are not immune, for example, William Eldredge who commands the largest operational B-1 bomber group in the US Air Force was on the list. We can even see who appears to be Rahm Emanuel of the Senate, members of NASA, the Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, FCC, and dozens more.

If anything, this just adds fuel to the fire of why not to buy an Apple iPad as was shown in my detailed post explaining why it still sucks.

So the other day, I asked a friend whether or not my D300s and 24-70 were waterproof. He told me they were water-resistant, and nothing really is water-proof. Hah. Guess what I found.

The Nikon DCS425m was built for the navy seals, and was supposedly waterproof to 100 meters without any special casing.

http://nikonrumors.com/2010/05/05/flashback-from-1998-navy-seals-training-with-nikon-underwater-digital-camera.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NikonRumors+%28NikonRumors.com%29

http://www.nikonweb.com/dcs425/