OK now, let me get this straight. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said they are taking over the investigation into the recent minor data exposure of around 114,000 iPad users. The data was exposed not through a complex and artful case of cyber crime or digital espionage, or even good hacking. AT&T happened to have next to no security to keep people from using a simple script on their website designed to give you the email address mapped to the ICC-ID or Integrated Circuit Card ID you enter. The ICC-ID is basically the serial number of the SIM card in the iPad.

No financial data was exposed, no credit card info, no health of private information…there was no way that this information could be used to spoof or impersonate the user, or defraud them in any way. It was a simple script to help AT&T identify the owner of a lost device. All the hacking group got, very maturely known as Goatse Security, were emails (most of them public anyway) and a relatively useless ID number. In fact the output of this whole operation was so useless the Goatse Security lads realized they had more to gain by exposing the escapade and paint themselves as whistleblowers, documenting AT&T’s poor security.

This is a case for the FBI? Really?

Well, you must keep in mind that sources say that many of the people whose emails (their public emails, mind you) and ICC-IDs were snatched are high ranking figures in government and the Justice Department. You know, the same Justice Department that the FBI reports to.

So in other words, some Justice Department types heard the words HACK and DATA and IPAD and panicked like little girls on their first sleepover and screamed for a federal case to be made out of it…literally. Seriously, what will the FBI investigate? We know who did it, they have explained HOW they did it, and turned over the data they snatched. What is there left? To find out why they named their little club after a picture of a man stretching his anus to insane proportions?

I wonder how many millions will be spent this time in the service of technophobia, over reaction and the need to be perceived as being “on top of this cyber crime stuff”? I am all for protecting privacy…but the FBI????

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