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Apple Releases iOS 4.3.5 to Address Security Issue With Certificate Validation

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overcast

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bushido said:
who cares, its not like i have anything of value on it. its just a phone, my porn is stored elsewhere and i doubt anyone around me is smart enough to use that breach. if we were to get new features on the other hand .... guess i'll stick to 4.3.3 i need my SB Settings
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Many of us are using it outside of "just a phone". In fact , phone calls are the LEAST used aspect of mine. Emails, financials, passwords, social apps. I keep mine pass protected and will do a full wipe after 5 failures.

If all you want to do is make calls, you could have saved yourself quite a bit of money on a cheaper alternative.
 
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overcast said:
Many of us are using it outside of "just a phone". In fact , phone calls are the LEAST used aspect of mine. Emails, financials, passwords, social apps. I keep mine pass protected and will do a full wipe after 5 failures.

If all you want to do is make calls, you could have saved yourself quite a bit of money on a cheaper alternative.
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i barely use it to call either (6 mins last month) but i dont store anything secure on it, thats what a computer is for. but i agree that business people might find the update usefull
 
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manu chao

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bushido said:
who cares, its not like i have anything of value on it. its just a phone, my porn is stored elsewhere and i doubt anyone around me is smart enough to use that breach. if we were to get new features on the other hand .... guess i'll stick to 4.3.3 i need my SB Settings
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I guess you don't have any e-mail accounts configured (and never check e-mail via Safari).
How many passwords for anything semi-important are linked to any of your e-mail addresses? Start with something obvious like your AppleID and progress to things like PayPal.
 
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chaosbunny said:
Why do these tiny 4.3.5 updates always require such huge downloads? I don't get it, it's just a mobile phone OS ...
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They download the entire OS when there's a change as of now...but with iOS 5 there will be delta updates so just the things that are changed will be downloaded.
 
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SnowLeopard2008 said:
I accidentally clicked the check for update button while syncing my iPhone. Good thing I'm in class right now and can utilize my campus' blazing fast WiFi. The whole thing downloads in less than 8 minutes.
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huh? Shouldnt you be paying attention to the professor and wirting notes down? hmmm kids these days...
 
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manu chao said:
I guess you don't have any e-mail accounts configured (and never check e-mail via Safari).
How many passwords for anything semi-important are linked to any of your e-mail addresses? Start with something obvious like your AppleID and progress to things like PayPal.
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i dont save passwords anywhere but my brain and i have nothin to hide in my mails ;)


vartanarsen said:
huh? Shouldnt you be paying attention to the professor and wirting notes down? hmmm kids these days...
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we always have angry bird battles at class ;)
 
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This update bricked my iPhone 3GS, went through all the restore instructions but nothing worked. Just dropped it off at UPS for shipment to Apple for repair.

After the update failed it got stuck on the connect to iTunes screen, it would not power off or boot into recovery mode. Holding Home+Sleep just caused it to reboot back to the same screen. iTunes wouldn't detect it, tried restarting the Apple Mobile Device service, etc... no luck.

Thankfully, it is just my work phone so the only downside is my boss not being able to call me, more of an upside really. :D
 
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bushido said:
i dont save passwords anywhere but my brain and i have nothin to hide in my mails ;)




we always have angry bird battles at class ;)
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His point is that once they have access to your email, it is 100% simple as pie to go and reset your passwords on any site that you've registered to that is linked to that email address.
 
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Hmm, a couple quotes from today:
Our IT Dept email said:
Monday, July 25 at 6-8 PM CST....will be adding a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificate to...email
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(must mean CDT :rolleyes:)
Apple said:
iOS 4.3.5 Software Update

Fixes a security vulnerability with certificate validation.
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Karma?
 
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JAT

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Awjvail said:
His point is that once they have access to your email, it is 100% simple as pie to go and reset your passwords on any site that you've registered to that is linked to that email address.
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I actually find pie to be quite complex. This stuff is easy.
 
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Anybody's battery power meter falsely indicating 100% after updating? I've been using my iPad for a few hours since the last recharge and it's telling me I have 100% charge!

Edit: I did a hard reboot, no change!
 
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manu chao

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bushido said:
i dont save passwords anywhere but my brain and i have nothin to hide in my mails ;)
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You don't get where I am aiming at. It is not about reading your mails (though that helps a lot with social engineering), it is about the ability to reset all kinds of passwords once one has access to your e-mail account. Want to access your PayPal account, go to their website, enter your e-mail address and select reset password, the new password (or a password-resetting link) will be send to your e-mail address. And that is how you reset basically all your online passwords. It is not about finding your passwords written down anywhere, it is about being able to reset them once one has access to your e-mail account.

(And don't underestimate the social engineering aspect, how many times when you call any company or organisation you have some relationship with
do they ask you some personal details like birthday or physical address before you can procede, having access to your e-mail, address book etc. a lot of that can be get at.)

It is not about whether you have something to hide, but whether you have something of monetary value to steal from you.
 
hindmost

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Sixtafoua said:
Does anybody go through the trouble to update to these pointless releases?
There hasn't been anything new since 4.3.0...
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The most precious thing in life is not money, power, fame, or sex......it is TIME. Time, especially as you get older and it is running out is the key concern and value of thinking persons.

Which brings me to note that sitting around updating my two iPhones, one iPad and one iPod takes too much of my precious time. Apple must either come up with a lightening fast method to apply these updates or hold off until there are a pile of fixes to apply at once.

How about government support for putting a 20 year prison sentence on the life of malicious hackers. Trust me, that would cut down the problem very quickly.
 
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