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Apple Releases iOS 11.2.2 With Security Fixes to Address Spectre Vulnerability
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No, it won’t. This patch only addresses the vunerabities in Safari. There are no OS level changes here.
Once, again, another person who doesn't read the thread, just quotes and responds to someone with out knowing why.
Personally I wouldn't be too concerned about it. The exploits require a malicious app to be installed, and on a non-jailbroken iPhone that isn't something that is easily done.
They were selling the 5C into 2015 so people he bought them might only have a two year old phone. I think Apple should bet he one sucking it up and providing a patch. They have the money and resources.
Apple should be the ones sucking it up. They sold the 5C into 2016, so A6 devices should get the patch, as should A5 devices - the Touch 5 and iPad mini 1 were sold well into 2015.
That's not true, the exploit takes advantage of javascript from malicious websites (using Safari) that could be ran to read your proprietary data.
Apple shouldn't have been selling A6 devices into 2016 and A5 devices in 2015 then. Apple has the resources to put out a patch for iOS 9 and iOS 10 easily. There is a massive installed base of iPad 2's and 4s and iPad Mini 1s. Also plenty on the 5 and 5C. They should be patched.
I don't understand your analogy, Ford weren't selling 1943 models in 2014/5/6.
Oops forgot about that, still they are pretty difficult exploits to, well..... exploit.
Thats not why i suggested 10.3.3. Its still FASTER than iOS 11 which is a stupid worthless upgrade, just slower.
im still feeling stupid for having installed v10, v9 was totally fine and a heck of a lot faster.
iPhone 8 and X do not throttle anything to begin with. The power management is not active in their iOS builds.
So many different experiences of everything it seems. Even some of those who can't stand iOS 11 are more than happy with iOS 10 and felt it was a huge improvement over iOS 9 which was just horrible.
iOS 9 was horrible? That was the release where it was to focus on stability and very few features were introduced. I don't recall it being horrible.
Neither do I, at least not in the overall sense--the early versions of it had some issues, and perhaps bigger or more of them for some, but that's not that different that most new releases. That said, there are those who are pretty critical of most iOS versions, and in particular of iOS 11, but who have mentioned that iOS 10 was an improvement over iOS 9 because things really couldn't get any more worse compared to iOS 9. It just goes to show that despite most generalities that people try to draw when it comes to things of this nature, a lot of "conclusions" that are drawn are still largely affected by personal experience (and thus subjectivity).
Can someone update me, it was my understanding from what I’ve read and seen that it was only Intel processors that are affected by the two Spectre flaws and Meltdown, with AMD and ARM only affected by the Spectre flaws.
Are there any processors in iOS devices that have Meltdown?
Also for those who don’t know, current benchmarks in Windows 10 at least suggest a less than 1% performance decrease post patch, not the 5-30%, but we still have to wait for BIOS updates to be sure.
Are there any processors in iOS devices that have Meltdown?
Also for those who don’t know, current benchmarks in Windows 10 at least suggest a less than 1% performance decrease post patch, not the 5-30%, but we still have to wait for BIOS updates to be sure.
According to Apple, yes, iDevices are vulnerable to the Meltdown exploit technique.
An excerpt:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394
I find it amazing that apple is back to having subsequent OS releases be slower than the previous... even Microsoft stopped doing that with windows.
