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NEWS: Apple iPad users' e-mail addresses harvested by hackers

The US telephone company AT&T has blocked access to a website feature that revealed details of at least 114,000 iPad users' e-mail addresses.

Contact details for a range of high-profile figures, including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are believed to be among those disclosed.

Hackers calling themselves Goatse Security revealed the flaw and shared the data with Gawker Media.

Experts played down the risks, saying little critical data had been lost.

AT&T, which is the only network offering iPad 3G services in the United States, said it would notify all iPad users whose e-mail adresses may have been accessed.

"We take customer privacy very seriously and while we have fixed this problem, we apologize to our customers who were impacted," the company said in a statement.

The vulnerability only involved iPad users who had signed up for AT&T's 3G wireless service, and users of the iPad outside the US are believed to be unaffected.

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John Navas
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Slow is better than nothing

A new software bundle called Smokescreen promises to bring Flash animations and interactivity to the iPad and iPhone by converting them into JavaScript on the fly.

Smokescreen is entirely written in JavaScript, and once running it downloads the Flash SWF file, decompresses and interprets it, then renders without recourse to any plug-in or Adobe product. The execution speed is slow and the existing demonstrations are restricted to basic animations, but it does work.

All that's available right now is a selection of animated advertisements, including ones for Microsoft and the Batman computer game, which demonstrate that the concept works but aren't exactly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in Flash.

But then such advertisements make up the bulk of Flash content on the internet, and if Smokesceen can't replicate the interactivity of Farmville then everyone could be a winner: Apple preserves its application revenue stream while advertisers get to show animated adverts without mucking about with HTML. But that's forgetting that Apple has plans for its own advertising revenue stream compete with interactive animations, so even making basic animations work risks annoying Cupertino.

Not that Smokescreen cares - its technology is entirely in JavaScript, so it's beyond the control of even Steve Jobs. The company promises to open source the whole thing at some point soon, making money from technical support and related services.

With basic animated content the technology works, but success will depend on how well it performs with more complicated applications, and on how Adobe feels about the whole thing.

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John Navas

Steve Jobs has lifted his outright ban on iPhone interpreted code, allowing some developers to interpret, but not others.

In the recently updated terms of service for the iPhone SDK, Apple says it will allow interpreted code ? but only with its written permission.

The move is yet another indication that Jobs is restricting iPhone development not so much to control security and performance, but to keep particular applications from particular companies off Apple handhelds, including not only the iPhone but the iPad and the iPod touch, which use the same SDK. ...

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John Navas

that's a bit of a biased spin to say the least.

nonsense. the entire issue is so that apps use the proper apis.

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nospam

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George Kerby

John Navas wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

SD stands for Sucking Dick at Apple....always has.

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Larry

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