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To: for-q-clinton
Basically I can install a virus/malware on your iPhone by plugging it into my USB. How long will it take to install a virus on someone’s phone who leaves it at the table.

Uh, no. Before that iphone will do ANYTHING over USB, you'd have to know the users passcode. Otherwise, ZIP. And getting it into a Mac is not as easy as these bozos claim.

130 posted on 11/06/2014 1:56:48 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Whatever. You’re a broken record repeating the same ol’ crap to protect apple your employer.


139 posted on 11/06/2014 2:13:01 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Swordmaker
Before that iphone will do ANYTHING over USB, you'd have to know the users passcode. Otherwise, ZIP.

If you have physical access to the device for a considerable period of time, Find My iPhone is not turned on, and it's not iCloud locked, couldn't you force it into DFU mode and jailbreak? Admittedly, that's a fairly long list of ifs, and I generally assume that physical access means total access given enough time.

I might have to try that with my 4S, because I just found out that there's an iOS 8.1 untethered jailbreak. I've been holding off on upgrading until that happened.

169 posted on 11/06/2014 3:53:32 PM PST by ReignOfError
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