Lily Allen Said To Be Suing Apple Over Her Hacked Laptop... But Details Are Scarce And Hazy
from the huh? dept
Reader technofear was the first of a few of you to send over variations on the story that Lily Allen is allegedly suing Apple to force the company to help her figure out who hacked into her laptop. At least that's about all I can figure out from the various press reports. I've read about a dozen at this point, and all of them are incredibly vague. There's a hacked laptop. There's a request to Apple, which was refused, and then there was a "lawsuit." While I'm not sure how UK law works on this topic, if it were in the US, it sounds more like a situation where she's seeking someone's IP address, and is filing for a subpoena (or something like it) to compel Apple to reveal certain information which may identify who was involved. That's not quite "suing Apple," but again, the details are vague. It's also not clear what "hacked her laptop" means... or why Apple would have the details. Is there anyone out there who has actual details beyond the absolutely awful press reports?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Obviously...
Who did the hacking? I'm pretty sure it was Mike Masnick's army of hackers, also known as MMAH, which, ironically, when pronounced phoenetically is the same half-retarded noise I make as my brain goes limp when listening to anything Lily has to say.
....this means something, I'm sure of it. I just can't figure out what the hell it is....
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Does that make anyone else think of Harry Potter?
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But without any gingers....
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...just keeping the thread going...
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You are....only human....
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Unless...the baby is a super-genius and figured out how to hack Lily's computer from inside the womb.
Case closed.
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....also, understanding the internet, not so much....
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Screw b-days I'm getting old.
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By the way, am I supposed to know who the hell this is?
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That's what I'm talkin' about.
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Allen seems very computer illiterate to me. So I wouldn't be at all surprised if it turns out she opened an email attachment of one of those "funny" emails, that happened to have a payload for the Mac in it.
And now she claims that she's been hacked, and wants Apple to sort it all out, because, you know, Apple knows everything that happens to any Apple computer. Steve Jobs has a special Lily Allen screen that shows him what's going on with her Mac.
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Who the hell is Lilly Allen?
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what?
/get off my rss feed.
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Er. Many reasons.
(1) This is a discussion site, and as I've said countless times, I post about what's out there in order to kick off a discussion and learn more. It's quite common for me to ask folks if they know more. I've probably done it half a dozen times this week.
(2) This story is being reported widely (Google News shows hundreds of stories) and all of the reporting seems confused. And they all reported it without having much of a grasp on the subject. At least I pointed out where it doesn't make sense and asked for people to fill in the blanks. The rest of the press just pretended they knew what was going on when they clearly did not.
/get off my rss feed.
Your choice, but if me asking questions makes you dump the RSS feed, well, good luck to you.
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It's simple
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By By Lily Allan
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I say we add insult to injury. We should send her a refrigerator box, a mail box with her name on it, a map to a park in the UK, and forward her mail to that park address.
Big Ole Grin...
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The Sun?
That article's total length is a mere four sentences.
And the last of those sentences was just the typical, snarky comment that British tabloids use as a "punch line" to the story.
So this is kind of like saying UFO's are real, because the Weekly World News said so.
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For Americans, this is a newspaper that made its name with page 3 girls (topless girls, usually close to the age of consent in the same issues where they attack paedophiles) and bingo games. Think the New York Post with more boobs (and yes, it's also a Murdoch product).
Journalism is not what you'll find there, although it's not quite as shamelessly tacky as the Daily Star or the Sunday Sport.
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