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The iPhone just lost its perfect security record — now what?
The Verge ^ | 6 Nov 2014 | Russell Brandom

Posted on 11/06/2014 10:14:15 AM PST by for-q-clinton

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To: 5thGenTexan

Not at all. I am saying that Apple leaves you with their approved security choices ONLY and not apple lets you at least try to find your own or code them yourself.

Am I wrong?


61 posted on 11/06/2014 11:02:29 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: papertyger

Mother of them all

http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/

[and I’m sure there’s no correlation between “apple” and that snake in the garden]

;D


62 posted on 11/06/2014 11:03:22 AM PST by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: Salamander

Just amazes me. Their leader was trying to sell Macs as a gaming platform last night over a PC because of the new Retina display.

They brook nothing but total praise. It’s like an Occupy Free Republic chapter meeting.


63 posted on 11/06/2014 11:04:24 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: for-q-clinton

The iOS device is infected when plugged into an infected OS-X device by USB.

The infected Mac can infect your iPhone/Pad/Pod.

http://news.yahoo.com/malware-infect-iphones-via-mac-computers-163353319.html;_ylt=AwrBJR8drVtUSEEAf7rQtDMD


64 posted on 11/06/2014 11:04:29 AM PST by glock rocks (Whenever I find myself in a conumdrum, I ask myself: What would Elvis do?)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I’m just understand the cyber world doesn’t have the same level of feedback that normally keeps mildly “off” people such as yourself in check.

Whether you understand it or not, your obsession is embarrassing to it’s innocent victims even if it’s not to you.


65 posted on 11/06/2014 11:04:52 AM PST by papertyger (Those who don't fight evil hate those who do)
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To: for-q-clinton

Source: The Verge

The Verge operated by network media Vox Media

Vox Media: Created by environmental activist and liberal political strategist Jerome Armstrong

No bias here. Anti-Apple ills and their counterparts continue to grasping. As if any Apple user though the iOS was “perfect”.


66 posted on 11/06/2014 11:05:02 AM PST by Mortimer St. Hubbins
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To: kevkrom

“So, if you go outside of Apple’s “walled garden” to get apps from an untrusted source, you might get malware? Thanks for the newsflash.”

Precisely.

:^D


67 posted on 11/06/2014 11:05:02 AM PST by Mortimer St. Hubbins
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To: Norm Lenhart; Chgogal; Swordmaker; papertyger; House Atreides

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/cnn-deal-microsoft-backfires-after-commentators-caught-using-ipads-election-night


68 posted on 11/06/2014 11:05:02 AM PST by Mortimer St. Hubbins
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To: papertyger

So in short, this is a feelings thing for you.


69 posted on 11/06/2014 11:06:01 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Seriously?

They’re usually too underpowered for that, IMO.

Now, an Alienware gaming rig would be *sweet*.

Just hook it up to a nice, big IPS monitor.


70 posted on 11/06/2014 11:06:28 AM PST by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: Salamander

bookmarked!

many thanks....


71 posted on 11/06/2014 11:06:58 AM PST by papertyger (Those who don't fight evil hate those who do)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Actually, more of a social thing.


72 posted on 11/06/2014 11:07:50 AM PST by papertyger (Those who don't fight evil hate those who do)
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To: papertyger

That’s a two-edged statement, you know.

True believer Mac fans scare me.


73 posted on 11/06/2014 11:08:14 AM PST by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: papertyger

There’s a bunch more sites of the same general thing but often, they’re just reruns of what gets posted there, first.

*Epic* time-waster site.

:)


74 posted on 11/06/2014 11:10:03 AM PST by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: Salamander

I was told I can’t tale my gaming righ to a park to play modded Slyrim.

Because when I kill dragons and rescue princesses, I apparently need to have portability over frame rate. I was also informed that a $2000 dollar rig is an expensive computer. Imagine my bewilderment that a simmilar equipped MacPro is closer to 6K. Nut it can make a cup of coffie instead of having triple SLI video cards on a PCI. bus.

Sorry. I lied. I can buy a $1000 PCI3 chassis to hook a 70 dollar thunderbolt cable to it then add the video cards. Except no one makes drivers.

Math is a funny thing.


75 posted on 11/06/2014 11:11:31 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: papertyger

So?


76 posted on 11/06/2014 11:12:11 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Unless you plan on "coding your own" or "inspecting for threats" for everything on tour Android, including the full OS, then the risk of malware in the Android app space is higher than the benefit of moving from the Apple app space, in my opinion.

And as others have stated, the root of the problem is a PC running iTunes; not iOS. I have not heard if the same venerability exists on a Mac running iTunes or not.

Your fear of the NSA (which you assume you can manage to avoid on Android) opens you up to the identity thieves big time.

77 posted on 11/06/2014 11:15:06 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: 5thGenTexan

The point I am making is that Apple removes the very choice to do that.


78 posted on 11/06/2014 11:16:19 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Salamander
True believer Mac fans scare me.

I don't believe in such an animal. I've never seen one anywhere but the anecdotes of questionable sources.

As far as I'm concerned, they are a fairy tale the greasy, showerless, dateless, socially outcast, inferiority obsessed, geeks of the seventies invented to justify their pathological need to injurer "cool" people.

From there, it just became accepted lore as such people became successes and, for the most part, got their $h!t together.

79 posted on 11/06/2014 11:17:34 AM PST by papertyger (Those who don't fight evil hate those who do)
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To: Norm Lenhart

My Alienware laptops run games really well.

But I don’t play games so it’s all lost on me.

I hate math.

It’s always expecting *me* to solve its problems.


80 posted on 11/06/2014 11:18:35 AM PST by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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