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To: Swordmaker

http://bgr.com/2013/03/26/iphone-security-software-vulnerabilities-ios-397421/


25 posted on 01/29/2014 9:01:49 AM PST 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

Good grief, read the actual report. I did. Your link is to a twaddle report on a study (no statistician would give it the time of day) that merely counted CVE reports over the existence of the development of each platform. . . and assumes that those CVEs are still exploitable vulnerabilities! How absurd!

iOS has existed far longer as a platform than either Android and Microsoft’s new Windows Phone, so yes, Apple has more reported CVEs over the years for iOS than either Google or Microsoft has for their platforms BUT, those vulnerabilities have have been long ago CLOSED and are not current vulnerabilities. To release a comparison report based merely on a mere count without normalizing the count for time is disingenuous to say the least. . . and most likely deliberately designed to be propaganda to benefit the competition.

It turns out to get the total counted against Apple’s iOS, some of the vulnerabilities this report counted were CVEs in UNIX from 1988, for Pete’s sake! This is clearly FUD when all other serious reports of true mobile security exploits show that better than 99% exist for the Android platform! Those few that have hit the iOS platform have mostly hit the jailbreaking community and THEY deserve what they get for opening their devices to anything that comes in.

You lame attempt to spread FUD is just exactly what I said in my last post. Untrue.


26 posted on 01/29/2014 5:36:14 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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