Only jailbroken iPhones, iPads can be safe from latest vuln

It only takes 1

' 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.

So...

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.

Jailbreaking - no thanks.

What about jailbreaking your phone making it 'more' susceptible to hacking?

For those of us ...

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.