App Developer Says Stolen UDIDs Came From Them, Not FBI 180
pdabbadabba writes "A Florida iPhone and iPad app developer, Blue Toad, has come forward claiming that it is the source of the Apple UDIDs previously released by Anonymous. Their dataset, they say, is a 98% match for the one Anonymous hackers claim to have stolen from an FBI laptop. If so, this development would cast serious doubt on Anonymous' claims and, possibly, calm fears that this data is evidence of an ongoing FBI surveillance operation (a claim the FBI has also denied)."
No tinfoil hats? (Score:3, Funny)
4 comments and no one has yet claimed that Blue Toad is an obvious FBI front?
woohoo (Score:4, Funny)
the fbi check cleared... i did it
Why the list was not from FBI: NOT massive (Score:3, Funny)
And the UUIDs might not have been used by the FBI, but that doesn't mean they aren't engaged in a massive surveillance operation against its citizens.
If you think that way about the FBI, then you know the list was not from the FBI.
With a few hundred million iOS devices in the wild, an FBI list should have hundreds of millions of entries. AND it would be a hell of a lot more complete.
It was always bullshit to think this list was from the FBI. It was painfully obvious the list was published by a group that hates the FBI as much as you and other Slashdot users do, just to discredit them.
I don't care about the FBI myself one way or the other. But I do care about groups that are supposed to represent a kind of healthy counterpoint to the FBI, losing a lot of credibility by making stuff up just to attack enemies.
You want a real conspiracy theory? How about the FBI was behind the original Anonymous post unveiling the UDID list, knowing the real holder would come forth and embarrass Anonymous... Anon, seems you have a mole.
Re:Hm... (Score:5, Funny)
You're forgetting the fact that it was Obama's fault all along.
Re:And that company is... (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, yes. The colloquializtion of Occam's Razor is "All things being equal, the simpler theory is more likely."
However, this neglects the little-known fact that William of Ockham was one of the founding members of the real Illuminati (and not the 18th-Century cover organization everyone knows about). He planted his philosophical disinformation into the intellectual culture specifically to cover the elaborate and long-running schemes he knew his secret society would enact over the coming centuries. By making us think that the simpler solution is the better one, he innoculated us against uncovering complex and insidious schemes, or believing them if they are uncovered. Fnord.