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To: PugetSoundSoldier

You know security is relative. Meaning if I keep my server in a secure facility the likelyhood of the drives being stolen and info ripped off them or a virus being installed are low.

However, if I carried my server with personal info on it to bars, theme parks, customer sites, the pool, an airplane, etc...I’d put a lot more secuirty on it like encryption of the data and make it so that just plugging in something like a USB cable wouldn’t allow you to have access to the system.

You’d think with apple being uber secure the iPhone wouldn’t allow someone to easily plug in a USB cable on their phone. Heck I’ve left my cell phone in locked mode before in a relatively unsecure area. If you ever do business with the military you’ll know they have you drop your cell phone outside the door on a table where everyone’s cell phone is. Now the phones don’t get stolen as that would be too obvious and you could issue a kill command for ceratain phones. But now the spy can just grab the phone plug it in and get what he wants from all the iPhones on the table.

This is definitely not good nor secure by any means. I really can’t see any security minded person saying this is not a huge issue.


29 posted on 06/25/2010 1:49:24 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: for-q-clinton
You’d think with apple being uber secure the iPhone wouldn’t allow someone to easily plug in a USB cable on their phone.

Seems apple would catch it because they care about their own security too. Could this have a simple fix?

39 posted on 06/25/2010 2:14:55 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.portpublishing.com/Computer%20Based/retaildetailgmsea.htm)
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