How Apple's iOS Went From Insecure To Most Secure 312
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CmdrTaco
from the shaking-in-my-boots dept.
from the shaking-in-my-boots dept.
GMGruman writes "There's no such thing as a perfectly secure operating system, but security experts agree — somewhat grudgingly in some cases — that iOS, Apple's mobile operating system, is the most secure commercial OS today, mobile or desktop. It didn't start that way of course, and Robert Lemos explains what Apple did to go from insecure to most secure."
Easily Fixable (Score:4, Interesting)
More people need to pay attention to http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl [slashdot.org] and mod stories like this into oblivion.
Re:Frist to get jailbroken... (Score:5, Interesting)
And while jailbreaks for iOS happen for almost every point release, they are getting tougher and tougher to find (as in it takes the dev-team more and more time to find a patch).
Re:Completely useless (Score:4, Interesting)
Oh, so you can run emulator software on it now, can you?
Or compile source code into packages that you can install onto it?
Or go into the boot up processes and turn off or configure any services that you don't want or want to run differently?
Or create a specific account to run the OS will much fewer permissions so that you're more secure due to the tighter restrictions you've placed yourself under?