Vincent Arnold

It will “turn your security team into zombies,” and Apple is possibly “using the Windows Safari Beta Test to stamp out iPhone security holes.”

Or, then again, depending on which iPhone watcher you’re paying attention to, the iPhone security is irrelevant compared with “insecure wireless access points, tape backups disappearing, wrapping your newspapers in customers’ personal financial information, and stolen laptops.”

The iPhone won’t go on sale until June 29. Up until now, and probably until it hits retail shelves, Apple has given next to nil information regarding the security features its first smart phone will have, making security analysis little better than conjecture. The few pieces of security background analysts have to go on include these tidbits: 1) The iPhone will run on Mac OS X and 2) the iPhone will run Apple’s Safari browser.

Full article and Source: eWeek

This entry was posted on Monday, June 25th, 2007 at 4:12 pm and is filed under Information Technology.