Linked List: October 3, 2013

Thursday, 3 October 2013

2.9 Million Adobe Customer Accounts Compromised by Hackers ★

Adobe:

Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords on our systems. We also believe the attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers, including customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and other information relating to customer orders. At this time, we do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers from our systems. We deeply regret that this incident occurred.

They took source code too.

How the White House Sees the Shutdown and Debt Ceiling Fight ★

Succinct summary by Ezra Klein:

As the White House sees it, Speaker John Boehner has begun playing politics as game of Calvinball, in which Republicans invent new rules on the fly and then demand the media and the Democrats accept them as reality and find a way to work around them.

Redesigning WeddingDJ and Party Monster for iOS 7 ★

Speaking of iOS 7 redesigns, Steamclock Software’s Allen Pike has a nice look at theirs.

How to Make a Vesper: 1.007 ★

My Q Branch colleague Dave Wiskus goes deep on the thinking and process behind our update of Vesper for iOS 7.

iOS 7 Tip: ‘Short Name’ Settings for Display in Messages and Mail ★

Great tip from Allyson Kazmucha at iMore. I like the first name with last initial option (which was the default setting in at least one of the beta releases over the summer).

Samsung Lawyers Supplied Executives With Highly Confidential Apple-Nokia License Agreement ★

Florian Mueller:

The order came down after a hearing held yesterday on a request by Apple (and possibly also one by Nokia) for sanctions against Samsung (and/or its outside counsel) for violation of a protective order, i.e., for illegal disclosure of (in this case, extremely) confidential business information.

I must say that I’m shocked.

Licensing executives from Samsung and Nokia held a meeting on June 4, 2013 to discuss a patent license deal between these parties. In that meeting, a Samsung exec, Dr. Seungho Ahn, “informed Nokia that the terms of the Apple-Nokia license were known to him” and according to a declaration from Nokia’s Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Paul Melin, “stated that Apple had produced the Apple-Nokia license in its litigation with Samsung, and that Samsung’s outside counsel had provided his team with the terms of the Apple-Nokia license”. The Melin declaration furthermore says that “to prove to Nokia that he knew the confidential terms of the Apple-Nokia license, Dr. Ahn recited the terms of the license, and even went so far as to tell Nokia that ‘all information leaks.’”

Shameless.

See also: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, who has compiled a long list of similar dirty tricks from Samsung.

How Panic Got Into Video Games With Campo Santo ★

Dave Tach, writing for Polygon:

So when ex-Telltale Games designer and writer Sean Vanaman announced last month that the first game from Campo Santo, his new video game development studio, was “being both backed by and made in collaboration with the stupendous, stupidly-successful Mac utility software-cum-design studio slash app/t-shirt/engineering company Panic Inc. from Portland, Oregon,” it wasn’t expected, but it wasn’t exactly surprising, either. It was, instead, the logical conclusion of years-long friendships and suddenly aligning desires.

Can’t wait to see what comes of this.

Every First-Edition Ian Fleming James Bond Book Cover ★

They’re all great, but Dr. No and Moonraker are my favorites of the bunch.