iOS 4 works very well on the 3G, albeit apps like iBooks seem to run a bit slow. I haven't noticed any significant degradation anywhere else.
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iOS 4 Addresses Over 60 Security Vulnerabilities
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iOS 4 works very well on the 3G, albeit apps like iBooks seem to run a bit slow. I haven't noticed any significant degradation anywhere else.
Actually, no they shouldn't. When a company stops support for a product to support a new product, then it is time for an upgrade.
In Apples world maybe. Most companies offer legacy support for a certain period of time.
What's funny is that they didn't address the biggest security vulnerability of the entire OS: it was able to be jailbroken within hours after its release.
Actually, yes they should. This may be difficult to believe, but Apple releases security updates for both 10.5 and 10.6, even though they are no longer developing minor releases for 10.5.
Older iOSs
Yes, we need a 3.1.4 or whatever to correct all those vulnerablities on the 1st and 2nd generation iPhones and iPod touches.
Whenever Apple release a new point release on Snow Leopard that has a lot of security fixes in it, they also release a security release for Leopard. Only fair.
At least for those on 3.1.3
Yes, we need a 3.1.4 or whatever to correct all those vulnerablities on the 1st and 2nd generation iPhones and iPod touches.
Whenever Apple release a new point release on Snow Leopard that has a lot of security fixes in it, they also release a security release for Leopard. Only fair.
At least for those on 3.1.3
But note that with OS X, Apple always releases all updates at the same time. If they update Snow Leopard, a security update for Leopard comes out at the same moment. Same goes for every previous version of OS X.
The fact that they released iOS 4 without any security update for original iPhones is frightening.
Now it is possible that either 1. they do it differently with iPhone than OS X or 2. that they rushed to get iOS 4 out and will get 3.1.4 out as soon as they can. Maybe. But it breaks every precedent they have set... or they have declared the original $600 iPhone worse than a piece of garbage: something that they have now told every hacker how to exploit in a lot of different ways.
You guys need to understand that security is one of the toughest things to tackle. Nobody can predict the actions of determined hackers, and nobody can code perfectly on the first try or even the next several hundred tries, bugs are the nature of software engineering and there are no way to escape it.
The most important thing about security to understand is that there's no such thing as perfect security or "unhackable". Apple isn't better than any other company at this. Closed or Open code, it doesn't matter. Open code has an extra advantage that the code is being looked by thousands of engineers all around the world of different skills. However that advantage is almost slim because it requires somebody to actually look at it first and understand that its a bug or even a security exploit and there's no gaurantee that the first person to find this bug isn't going to be a hacker. Not to mention, you don't need a bug for it to actually be a security exploit, it can be a feature being misused that was not foreseeable by the developers.
Now @segia, there's a huge difference between security updates and feature updates. It's acceptable for companies to stop providing the feature updates for older products to push people on toward to newer products, it's not acceptable to do the same for security updates. It's a fix to a mistake made in the previous products, they should be responsible to maintain the security as well as fixes for their previous products for a reasonable amount of time. Companies can not assume a 100% turnover ratio, there can be more people on older products than there are people on the newer products. Look at XP for an example, if MS stopped providing security updates 3 years in, we'll have years of massive malware infections that would bring disasters to the economies around the world. SP2 was an amazing update that secured it well and when was the last time we had a massive malware infection targeting the OS only? Now malware has turned toward the web and more economic focus instead of FUD and that's simply due to the OS being more harden and secure as well as having no financial incentives to spread FUD. If we provide the same security hardening that the OS companies has done to their OS to the web browsers, we should see a drop in the the infections as well. Especially with sandbox concepts slowly being applied to each part of the browser. Of course humans will always remain the weakest link and education is important.
@BeyondtheTech, it doesn't mean anything. Those jailbreak devs have purposely withheld the exploits until the final release of the firmware, making it harder for Apple to figure it out to fix it. You mentioned that it's the biggest security vulnerability of the OS, no it isn't. It's just one of the several unknown "exploits" of the OS that Apple hasn't found yet. Every OS in the world have "exploits" in it. I'm quoting it because exploits are often the result of unforeseen bugs and features being abused. Nothing can prevent those from appearing.
Oh, I didn't pay no $600 for my phone. The point is not the cost of the iPhone, it is the implication that they may have killed it without telling anyone. That would be downright rude.
But jailbreaking hasn't gone through a vulnerability that the end user will ever experience since OS 1.0.2 (or something like that, the tiff exploit) it goes through hacking the firmware itself, which is much easier since you can write to it before it's on the phone. That's not a dangerous exploit. I'm a little apprehensive in even calling that an exploit actually.
Hey you guys that are complaining about apple not supporting the original iPhone with this.
How long has it been out? Apple has provided three years of support to the phone. If you had a three year contact subsidize the purchase. You are due for an upgrade.
Does motorola, Sony or any other phone company still release updates for devices after 2.5 year?
What kinda double standard are you holding apple to?
Your iPhone is 3 years old. Just upgrade, or go to the other company you claim to tell us is better and stop posting here about how stupid apple is.
Kthxbai
How long has it been out? Apple has provided three years of support to the phone. If you had a three year contact subsidize the purchase. You are due for an upgrade.
Does motorola, Sony or any other phone company still release updates for devices after 2.5 year?
What kinda double standard are you holding apple to?
Your iPhone is 3 years old. Just upgrade, or go to the other company you claim to tell us is better and stop posting here about how stupid apple is.
Kthxbai
You're comparing an iPhone to dumb phones from other companies that have no really security issue to anybody since it doesn't do anything other than being a phone? iPhone contains all kind of information about us and it can last far longer than any other dumb phone with its ability to extend far more than just a phone. It is still useful now even if it is 3 years old, i can see people using it for another 2-3 years. Not everybody needs the latest hardware.
The security fixes may just be an updated file to several frameworks and may be a simple update to the IOS 3. Those kind of fixes should be pushed to those devices, regardless of how old they are.
june 2012 - steve jobs issues a press release stating they've addressed 200 security issues in iOS5, while still banning Flash because of security concerns.
In all reality, hackers are not likely to be going after the original iPhone.
Mainly because most people have moved on at this point. The original iPhone was released January 9th 2007, in phone years it's really getting up there in the age department. That's what, three battery changes by now?
People are expecting their phones to evolve faster than their home computers these days. Most people trade in their phone for the new model as soon as they can.
That's probably what makes the original iPhone somewhat safe at this point, security through obscurity.
In terms of security, there is very little in terms of anything that is absolute. Hackers aren't often even intentionally trying to hack operating systems, they just play with their devices enough to discover flaws that exist due to doing things programmers never expected them to do.
That's how the Facebook chat 'hack' was discovered. It was more of an accidental discovery than it was some clever hacker. It was quickly shared online and the rest is history.
If someone really wants your information most people would be a little disappointed to discover that your phone and computer aren't your only vulnerabilities.
Mainly because most people have moved on at this point. The original iPhone was released January 9th 2007, in phone years it's really getting up there in the age department. That's what, three battery changes by now?
People are expecting their phones to evolve faster than their home computers these days. Most people trade in their phone for the new model as soon as they can.
That's probably what makes the original iPhone somewhat safe at this point, security through obscurity.
In terms of security, there is very little in terms of anything that is absolute. Hackers aren't often even intentionally trying to hack operating systems, they just play with their devices enough to discover flaws that exist due to doing things programmers never expected them to do.
That's how the Facebook chat 'hack' was discovered. It was more of an accidental discovery than it was some clever hacker. It was quickly shared online and the rest is history.
If someone really wants your information most people would be a little disappointed to discover that your phone and computer aren't your only vulnerabilities.
While PCs have been battling spyware and viruses for decades, Apple has remained relatively(completely?) hacker free.
It will be interesting to see now if Apple's MAGICAL POWERS extend to security..
Magical Powers: when a guy can walk onto a stage and say "oh, and one more thing," and whip out of his pocket an iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air, and iPad. ....oooooo, what's next?
It will be interesting to see now if Apple's MAGICAL POWERS extend to security..
Magical Powers: when a guy can walk onto a stage and say "oh, and one more thing," and whip out of his pocket an iPod, iPhone, MacBook Air, and iPad. ....oooooo, what's next?