All I can say it's the security being low is obvious. Giving out root permissions to everything that runs is just asking for a complete compromise resulting in the demise of the device. Just hope that they don't pull a Vista and block root permissions to everything except stuff released directly by the company.

Shrug. It's better to take a conservative view like that in this case. Better to block all third party software than to risk infection.

Or... Don't buy an over priced I-Phone that work only on the AT&T network in the first place. The warranty is no good, if you hacked the damn thing; so that's it works with a different company's system...

Actually it wouldn't be surprising to see that this vulnerability in the iPhone was actually a feature meant to benefit apple. They have already released a firmware update and bricked numerous phones from the first or second wave of phone buyers. Now at a point later IF you want you phone to be secure you will HAVE TO update it. This will mean bricking all the phones 'liberated' since the last bricking. I can see some suit... oops some kahki (since it's apple lol)... figuring this was a good ploy to help maintain that the phone is used the way they say it should be-- which means apple receives it planned residuals instead of the phone being unlocked and thus not tied to apple apps or AT&T.

The question is will a customer who was/is/or will be bricked go out and buy a new iphone and play by the Jobs rules or will they say screw it and buy a different phone? If that consumer already had signed up for the AT&T service though it means apple wins either way due to the cell service contract residuals from their contract.

This is crazy does this now mean that we have to get anti virus software for the phone i guess Norton's is out of the question due to the fact it being a resource hog :P

Originally posted by borhan9:

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This is crazy does this now mean that we have to get anti virus software for the phone i guess Norton's is out of the question due to the fact it being a resource hog :P

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LOL. Mcafee is way out of the picture too. And I can see it already: "AVG iPhone Edition"

EDIT- "if" to "is"

http://news.zdnet.com/2422-13568_22-156196.html

haha... nice one.

Thats not really a security hole... so much as a pocket size slab of Emmental.

I am dumbfounded by the remarkable sales of this product depsite the endless complaints about security, lack of 3G and the inadequate support for third party apps. Great! Now, Apple can develop their own AV for the iPhone and profit from that one too! It makes you wonder sometimes who crafts viruses, is it the people who sell the cure?

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lol @ AVG iPhone and Norton comments.. and COULD Norton really make a piece of software that could function with only 4 GB of memory to suck up? It would be like dialing:

555 [popup] out of memory error (/popup}

;-)

Apple could probably go to the Goodwill and buy up all the used underwear, slap a logo on it and sell it as iBriefs for $45 and make a killing. And the hole in the crotch would not be a bug but a feature for easier access your private-I (lol)!