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‘Anonymous’ Pesters FBI On Twitter
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/anonymous-and-fbi-fight-on-twitter.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Anonymous and the FBI have long been at odds legally, but on Tuesday, their fight spilled into the open on Twitter, as Twitter accounts acting as mouthpieces for each side offered competing versions of the truth about how Anonymous came to be in possession of what it said were 12 million hacked Apple device identification numbers.
On late Monday, someone claiming to be affiliated with the diffuse hacker group published a manifesto and links to text files online containing some 1 million Apple unique device identifiers, or UDIDS, long strings of numbers assigned by Apple to each and every iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, which can be used to identify the device owner as well as take control of some applications, according to developers.
The manifesto, which was credited to Anonymous’s Anti-Security, or “Anti-Sec” movement, claimed that the UDIDs had been obtained after hacking an FBI agent’s laptop, which originally contained the files.
Commentators around the Web wondered how the FBI would have come into possession of the UDID files, which can be accessed by third-party apps but aren’t normally transmitted to government agencies, in the first place.
