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columbo on Sept 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: UDID Leak : Identifying the Traitor

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

A file filled with identifiers is not extraordinary evidence to link this to the claim of being a FBI laptop. It is only what it is (a file of identifiers) and says nothing about where it came from.

Dylan16807 on Sept 5, 2012 [–]

FBI having a data dump of an iOS app's users isn't an extraordinary claim.

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