As computing becomes more cloud-like, so security becomes more difficult...


Here's a great bit from thebadapples.info:


Apparently if you use a browser to access your iDisk, there's no way to log out. That means the next user on that system can just go to your browser's History section and get right into your account. (Personally I just mount the iDisk on the local desktop, then dismount it when I'm done, but I wonder if there's an issue with that as well...)

So this is just a friendly reminder to anyone with a .mac account to be careful when checking your account on someone else's computer, especially a public one! If you do check it on someone's non-Mac, then make sure you have the ability to successfully clear the browser's history and cache. And go to apple.com/feedback and tell them that a company advertising above-average security should have simple security devices like "log out" in place!

Most disturbingly, Apple seem to have deleted discussion of this from their forums: according to this Slashdot post,

[P]odcaster Klaatu (of thebadapples.info) posted this on the discussion.apple.com site, only to have his post removed by Apple.

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