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[justiceischeap]

107. The problem with your opinion TJ, is this

Not everyone is as knowledgeable or as serious about online security as you are and you shouldn't expect them to be (it would be nice if they were but that's beside the point). Lioness is right in the regard that when people have a cloud account of some kind, they assume they're data is going to be safe because it's password protected--that's how most people in the real world see they're online security--if it's protected by a password, it's secure.

I'm a web developer, so I deal with online security issues often and I expect the service I'm hosting with (whether it be a data storage facility or the cloud) that they'll do their part in keeping things secure and I'll do my part. So it's not out of bounds for people to "expect" Apple to have a secure environment within the iCloud and it wasn't a problem with the "cloud" in the first place, it was a problem with one of their apps -- Find My Phone. And yes, I trust that when I pay for a service at any profit-driven corporation that when they say my data is secure, it will be secure.

That said, it's the Internet and hackers are ever-present and I know doing what I do for a living that things WILL get hacked. That's why my opinion is this: once everyone goes on the Internet, you expectation of privacy should go away because there is NOTHING private on the Internet--kinda like you have no expectation of privacy in public places.

When there is a will, there is a way for people to get that information, so don't post anything online that you don't want people to see. I am in no way saying that the victims of this crime are guilty of anything other than naivety but I also know the realities of the Internet and I try to be cautious about what I put out there but that doesn't mean we shouldn't expect our hosting services or the cloud to be as secure as possible.