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Nov 20, 07 - 12:50 am Comment from: silverhawk

Tin foil, I thought saran wrap was the real deal.

Nov 20, 07 - 12:51 am Comment from: TowerTone

Who told you I was wearing a tin foil hat? Who???
I knew I couldn't trust that dentist....
(Not that I am an anti-dentite)

This secondary article refuting the XianLi claims will barely muffle the iPhone spying hysteria. The original story is just too juicy not to repeat. The fact that it is false won't get in the way. Too many benefit from mud thrown on the iPhone.

Nov 20, 07 - 01:09 am Comment from: Charles

I love a good conspiracy... sort of a bummer if you ask me.

Nov 20, 07 - 01:32 am Comment from: shen

wow, really, just like all the rest of the paranoid Apple spy stories so far, this one is BS too. color me shocked....

so, how many people will learn from this and think before they panic when the next version of this story comes out?

more than 2? i doubt it.....

Nov 20, 07 - 01:39 am Comment from: ibookfast

like someone said on the other thread regarding this 'news', you don't have any privacy. I took a psych. test for fun.. just added my initials, on the results page I was stunned to see my full name. It was in all lower caps just like how I typed it when setting up my mac.

Guess its a good time to remind myself that security is not so much a state of affairs is it as a process.

Nov 20, 07 - 02:31 am Comment from: Jim - TIV

TowerTone... "you're a RABID anti-dentite!"

Nov 20, 07 - 02:32 am Comment from: Jim - TIV

Oh.. and almost forgot... "jim-tiv leaves by opening the door with a flourish"

Testing

Nov 20, 07 - 07:19 am Comment from: silverwarloc

Hey, MDN. Why does this keep notifying me of follow-up comments? No matter how many times I turn it off, it keeps coming back like the zombies in the Night of the Living Dead. What's up with that!

clearly you've just been taken over by the RDF since the original report.

hey everyone what kind of hat deflects the RDF????

Nov 20, 07 - 08:21 am Comment from: JadisOne

I'm sure Jobs and Co. gets a good laugh when they get a chance to sit down and read some of the headlines about their company. They've got to be thinking, "Those idiots."

Nov 20, 07 - 09:29 am Comment from: Brilliant Sandwich

As I said before, forget this non-story and go watch Heroes. If you followed my advice... you saw a great episode.

Towertone,
I am offended as a comedian!

@ibookfast

You may have the autofill function turned in your browser. It's probably no big deal that that happened to you but still I understand your concern. Whenever my name and/or personal info pops up unrequested on a web page I freak out a little. And it's not because I'm a spy either. Because I'm not.

Nov 20, 07 - 11:06 am Comment from: Ampar

The real danger is listening to an iPod, wearing tinfoil underwear and mowing the lawn during a thunderstorm. Mom screams, "Son, you are GROUNDED!"

Nov 20, 07 - 11:41 am Comment from: shiftOpt k

…paranoia, paranoia, everybody's out to get me…

nah, i'm glad to see this turned out to be phony boloney, but as mentioned earlier, this will be miss construed and used against the iphone. very few will get the info disclaiming the accusation. and most will still say the accusation is true. apple had me a little worried for a minute.

Nov 20, 07 - 11:59 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Ampar

Groan...

Nov 20, 07 - 12:26 pm Comment from: qka

Speaking of conspiracies, MDN, what's with this checking the "Notify me of follow-up comments" by default?

I replied once and left it checked by accident. Then I had to add a rule in Mail.app to automatically delete all those annoying messages as they came in!

Not nice!

Nov 20, 07 - 01:43 pm Comment from: informed

Poor advice, MDN.

Tinfoil hats are all the rage. Of all the tinfoil accessories I wear, I refuse to be seen without my fabulous hat.