Originally Posted By: Thermo1223
We are arguing semantics though. It's like arguing between storing passwords as plaintext vs encrypted, yes they are both still passwords but which one means "secure" to you?
It may well be simple protection, but it was not cracked by someone sitting at their computer guessing - and the same goes with WEP. Additional security comes from the common sense of the user AND availability from the hosts (which is provided in Apple's software). Fact of the matter is, ANY security can be broken, and that is something that needs to be understood.
Originally Posted By: Thermo1223
Security to me is having something that can't be broken into without a decent amount of effort and having multiple locks to go through at that. Hence why any big corp uses multiple steps to gain access to the network.
Again, you don't think that the brute force app did a lot of work to crack whatever credentials were needed to get those pictures?
Big corporations tend to hide behind firewalls and network credentials. I don't have to provide 20 credentials every time I access one of our dev servers. Point being, it's typically a SINGLE login that is verified each time I access something - just like an account for iTunes, and photostream - it's a single login.
Just to avoid future argument, the point that I am pretty sure you would agree on is the one I made in the beginning. If you put private pictures out there, you are asking for trouble, and that is part of the agreement that Apple, MS, and every other company makes you accept in order to cover their arses. YOU are the sole responsibility of what information/photos/videos are out there. YOU are supposed to protect yourself. They are providing a service and do NOT guarantee that no one is sitting in their basement trying to steal it. Knowledge is a wonderful thing when used properly (not taking a shot at you there), but then we get this sort of thing where people are shocked that their photos are in a cloud and were stolen. DURRRRRR.