They could at least have allowed the Internet Archive in the robots.txt, since the way things stand all www.twitter.com links will be unavailable from the Wayback Machine. That will obviously be a huge loss to researchers.
I'd agree with that - on the press flaming that Apple are getting though - Im just not buying it. Really feels more like a cloud storage hack than iCloud, right?
Some of the leaks do look like iCloud backups though. Videos don't get uploaded to Apple's "photo stream" so it would have to be an iCloud backup or, less likely, a local backup that was uploaded to Dropbox. Right now it "feels like" a lot of different leaks and leakers jumping on 4chan and demanding bitcoins for their own little dumps.
Yes, I've seen you writing about it, but it was not done in the end. (at least not the link spamming that's mentioned in this article) Even worse, the article mentions "Any of those might work, but none are particularly reliable. Most actually stand a good chance of positively influencing their results instead." - which rather indicates that it's hard to do really negative SEO even if you try.
