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Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 03:26:44 CDT

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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/complete-stranger-apple-id

By Stewart Meagher
The Inquirer
09 July 2008

SUPER SECURE APPLE has dropped a clanger on one of its loyal .Mac users
by handing over his password and login details to a complete stranger
with a similar name.

Doesn't really bode well for the Cupertino Cabal's new Mobile Me
service, does it?

We'll leave the telling of the tale to Mark Karppinen who revealed the
blunder on his bog [1] :

[...]

[1] http://blog.karppinen.fi/2008/07/apple-just-gave-out-my-apple-i.html

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