004 - iCloud accounts hacked

In the fourth and the first episode since the beta launch, we thank the audience for their support and clarify couple of questions/concerns from the audience.

• iPhone 6 Release

• • Coming Tuesday the rumour mill is ripe that Apple is going to release their next version of iPhone and iWatch

  • Dhruv discusses some of the features which Apple is rumored to release in this release.

• iCloud Celebrity Photo Hack

• • Last week, an infamous celebrity photo hack has been the point of discussion by both mainstream media and technology circles

  • Ravi offers some insights into what multifactor authentication is and why that would have prevented this hack.

  • Dhruv offers some other alternatives like 1Password which would eliminate the need of remembering the passwords.

  • Dhruv goes over some basic precautions you can take to prevent this happening to you (in case you become famous ;-)

Links discussed in the show:

• Celebrity photo hack, an overview and how can you prevent them from happening to your photos: http://gigaom.com/2014/09/07/prevent-icloud-hack/

• Multi factor authentication Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication

• The American Life podcast founder starts a new startup:  Hear Startup http://hearstartup.com/https://twitter.com/podcaststartup