7 thoughts on “Melbourne teen hacked into Apple’s secure computer network, court told”
If Apple doesn’t offer him a gig, you know Google, Facebook, China, et al will come knocking with offers.
Hire that boy!
Apple uses mainframes?
A system serial number is passed through network authentication and logged?
Yea.. there is a lot of weird details in that article.
The “authorized_keys” file usually only contains public keys in it. It’s compromise is only problematic if the attacker is somehow able to add their own public key into that file.
Perhaps this is what the article was talking about when it mentioned that the “serial number” of the attacker matched. If he was able to add his own public key to that file, they may have found the corresponding private key on his computer.
No network protocol I can think of sends your computer’s serial number along with the connection.
I rather think the news site has conflated serial number with MAC address, perhaps?
Your MAC address does not get transmitted beyond your local subnet, so I doubt they are talking about that.
If Apple doesn’t offer him a gig, you know Google, Facebook, China, et al will come knocking with offers.
Hire that boy!
Apple uses mainframes?
A system serial number is passed through network authentication and logged?
Yea.. there is a lot of weird details in that article.
The “authorized_keys” file usually only contains public keys in it. It’s compromise is only problematic if the attacker is somehow able to add their own public key into that file.
Perhaps this is what the article was talking about when it mentioned that the “serial number” of the attacker matched. If he was able to add his own public key to that file, they may have found the corresponding private key on his computer.
No network protocol I can think of sends your computer’s serial number along with the connection.
I rather think the news site has conflated serial number with MAC address, perhaps?
Your MAC address does not get transmitted beyond your local subnet, so I doubt they are talking about that.
Ah, yes of course