Or to sum up...
FUD
The latest jailbreak for iPhones, published on Wednesday, exploits a zero-day bug in iOS that only users of jailbroken devices will be able to fix, security experts warn. Version 3 of jailbreakme.com, which also works on iPad fondleslabs, takes advantage of a PDF-related vulnerability in iOS. Users of jailbroken devices can …
' iPhone malware remains even rarer than the low levels of Droid Trojans '
Every day I travel into London and see hundreds of iPhones being used, they are a large target and worth criminal effort to set up drive by attack sites, so lets hope this gets fixed soon.
I spend my life trying to keep out the bad guys, but I can't do it unless manufacturers respond when a weakness in their product is found. If an exploit comes out before a fix, I will have to think about disconnecting iPhones from our network, which will not be a very productive or popular move.
In that last paragraph you manage to suggest that Apple's walled garden approach is a security risk and then completely contradict yourself by referencing a real-world trend that proves the complete opposite?
So what do we infer from this? A walled garden is risky, a fenced garden is riskier and the only true solution is to have no garden at all? How very insightful. You should go into politics.
Who aren't mindless of the risks, rooting your Android and jailbreaking your iDevice make them a whole ton nicer to use. In fact I consider it essential.
But if you act like an AOL user with Outlook Express on Windows Me you're going to get a pox.
Dodgy cracked apps and security holes like leaving the SSH password set to "alpine" aren't new problems, we've been trying to educate lusers for years. This is just another arena where we can play carefully with stuff that they shouldn't be let loose on.
CyanogenMod 7.0.3 on my ZTE Blade, iOS 4.3.3 with Cydia on my iPhone4.
I'm absolutely delighted with the capabilities and enhancements that rooting and jailbreaking have given my devices over the stock firmwares.
Now, if only someone could get SwiftKey and a microSD reader into the Apple I'd be in heaven.
"But if you act like an AOL user with Outlook Express on Windows Me you're going to get a pox".
Now, you made me spill my drink... good job!
On a side note... keep 30 feet between you and a machine with all those three. At once. In the present day. And use Hazmat suit and a pole to tip it over the table, and hopefully brake it in the process. *shudder*.
Current jailbreak methods don't install SSH, so that is no longer a concern.
If you all you do is install Cydia, then terminal, use terminal to change the 'root' and 'mobile' account passwords, then install the PDF patch your iOS device will definitely be more secure.
Jailbreaking might hand you the gun, but if you want to shoot yourself in the foot you still have to load it and pull the trigger.