Linked List: July 27, 2013

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Apple Developer Site Hack: Doubts Cast on Turkish Hacker’s Claims ★

Charles Arthur, reporting for The Guardian:

A Guardian investigation has cast doubt on claims by a UK-based Turkish researcher that he hacked into Apple’s Developer portal, which has been offline for more than a week.

Pretty damning case that Ibrahim Balic did not breach Dev Center user data as he claims. But someone did.

Mat Honan After a Day With Chromecast ★

Mat Honan:

Likewise, if you’re running it in a browser, Amazon Instant video, Hulu, Rdio, and HBO Go all just work. As did video from Wired, Gawker media, and Flickr slideshows. We ran photos from Facebook fullscreen. We watched a live Flash stream of a Braves game on an extremely shady bootleg site that spawned approximately a gazillion Chrome windows in the background.

Wow, that sounds way better than the built-in MLB app on Apple TV.

Content-wise, this is an interesting strategy. Rather than negotiate TV-specific deals with these providers (other than Netflix), Google is just making Chromecast look like any other instance of Chrome the web browser. I wonder what its useragent string is — will sites like Hulu and HBO Go attempt to block it? If they can block it, it’s Google TV all over again. If they can’t, how has Google accomplished this?

Sword & Sworcery: Sales Infographic ★

Sales broken down by platform for a great indie game.