So you are just in the moment you are considering of buying an iPhone! Such a great device, lot's of applications, lot's of eye candy, great design etc etc etc. . .
These points shall make you think twice!
-Several iPhone users have reported a constant loss of signal! It is known that for iPhone, Apple shared a plastic cover to their users to avoid loss of signal, but the problem is not entirely solved yet.
-It doesn't support Java! Steven Jobs says that Java is too slow for iPhone but this is half of the truth. Java is indeed a kind of semi-interpreted language, as it translates source code to Bytecode, and interprets the Bytecode, but for repeated execution this Bytecode becomes native language and many times is faster even than C!!! This is a very important case for iPhone. Java is everywhere (even your car has Java), most programmers know Java and iPhone loses a huge amount of products. In addition if you are a developer you want at least your phone to have Java so you can experiment with it!
-iPhone is so closed that you can't change it as you like! Android and other Linux distributions
are entirely open, so you change your phone as you wish! If you have iPhone you would find it almost impossible to put any other Operating System on it, and if you find that it's possible it contains such risks that you won't dare it!
-It is very expensive, you need about $200 to buy one, because you pay the device and the software installed! This days open source software has reached the level of commercial software, and in some cases it is better! We live in times that free and open products are better than commercial and expensive one's! Isn't that great?
-Also, many security holes have been found on apple's products (not only iPhones) because Apple
doesn't consider security as much as they should do! And here we leave you with the below external articles. Hundreds similar to them are out there ready to warn you!
External Articles:
This is a completely new hacking vector, a new
exploitation door opened by researcher Ralf-Philipp
Weinmann.
Every smartphone has a multi-cpu architecture with
an Application processor and a Baseband processor,
both ARM CPU’s and implemented in a single chip.
While Application processors deal with the execution of
the phone tasks, Baseband deals with the protocols in
the air: GSM, UMTS...
According to Ralf, firmware code for the Baseband
was created in 90s and there’s almost no mitigation for
code execution beside hardware DEP implemented in
iPhone 4. This makes exploitation possible, however
no one until now took the time to reverse engineer the
firmware binaries and uncover many, many unchecked
memory copies through memcpy().
The possibilities of running a payload on poorly coded
phones Baseband firmware was also mitigated by the
costs involved in having malicious BTS, base stations
usually operated by carriers, required for the exploitation
to take place.
The researcher, demoed a remote code execution
against a mobile phone through $1250 worth of
equipment simulating a BTS through the OpenBTS
code, an open source project on purpose.
A price that can be afforded by the majority of the
criminals out there considering the potential outcome
presumed by Weinmann: eavesdropping conversations,
stealing corporate passwords, installing rootkits,
propagating worms, bricking phones and so on.
Source: Armanod Romeo,
www.elearnsecurity.com
Not only are Apple fans misguided about the Mac's security, but Apple doesn't take security
as seriously as Microsoft, according to one expert.
Apple fans who claim that the Mac is more secure than PCs not only are wrong, but they're ignorant about their security
risks, says a well-known hacker and security expert who has made a name for himself finding vulnerabilities in Windows.
And Apple itself doesn't take security as seriously as does Microsoft, he claims.
Marc Maiffret, currently chief security architect at security firm FireEye first gained a modicum of fame as a hacker
targeting Microsoft products. For example, he uncovered the security hole that the Code Red worm exploited back I
n 2001 to attack Windows servers.
He's been no stranger to publicity, being one of the hackers featured on MTV's I'm a Hacker, and named as one of
People Magazine's "Next Wave" of people to watch, back in 2004.
In an interview with CNet, he claims that Microsoft takes security more seriously than does Apple, and excoriates
Apple fans as being "ignorant" about security risks.
Maiffret says he believes Microsoft does one of the best jobs in the industry around security, telling CNet:
"From an internal process in how they go about auditing their code and securing software from a technical
perspective, they do have one of the best models. The area they still have room for improvement is around
time lines of how long it takes for them to fix things."
As for Apple and its fans, he has very little good to say, saying that the Mac is vulnerable, and its fans
ignorant about security risks:
"...they try to market themselves as more secure than the PC, that you don't have to worry about viruses,
etc. Anytime there's been a hacking contest, within a few hours someone's found a new Apple vulnerability.
If they were taking it seriously, they wouldn't claim to be more secure than Microsoft because they are very
much not. And the Apple community is pretty ignorant to the risks that are out there as it relates to Apple.
The reason we don't see more attacks out there compared to Microsoft is because their market share isn't
near what Microsoft's is."
And he leaves no doubt that he believes Microsoft as a company pays more attention to security than does
Apple, and says the only reason the Mac hasn't been targeted by malware writers is that it doesn't have a
large enough installed base:
"I think Microsoft does a better job with their code auditing than folks like Apple do. We've only seen a
scratching of the surface as far as Apple vulnerabilities because nobody cares to find them. There's nothing
Inherent with Apple themselves and their development. The only reason Apple gets little increase in security
is because they're running on top of a Unix-based operating system and they can take advantage of some of
the things that have been done for them."
source
http://www.pcworld.com/article/19442...nl_dnx_h_crawl
PS1:
We don't understand your enthusiasm about iPad 2!!!!
PS2: iPhone has great functionalities too, but so all smartphones!
These points shall make you think twice!
-Several iPhone users have reported a constant loss of signal! It is known that for iPhone, Apple shared a plastic cover to their users to avoid loss of signal, but the problem is not entirely solved yet.
-It doesn't support Java! Steven Jobs says that Java is too slow for iPhone but this is half of the truth. Java is indeed a kind of semi-interpreted language, as it translates source code to Bytecode, and interprets the Bytecode, but for repeated execution this Bytecode becomes native language and many times is faster even than C!!! This is a very important case for iPhone. Java is everywhere (even your car has Java), most programmers know Java and iPhone loses a huge amount of products. In addition if you are a developer you want at least your phone to have Java so you can experiment with it!
-iPhone is so closed that you can't change it as you like! Android and other Linux distributions
are entirely open, so you change your phone as you wish! If you have iPhone you would find it almost impossible to put any other Operating System on it, and if you find that it's possible it contains such risks that you won't dare it!
-It is very expensive, you need about $200 to buy one, because you pay the device and the software installed! This days open source software has reached the level of commercial software, and in some cases it is better! We live in times that free and open products are better than commercial and expensive one's! Isn't that great?
-Also, many security holes have been found on apple's products (not only iPhones) because Apple
doesn't consider security as much as they should do! And here we leave you with the below external articles. Hundreds similar to them are out there ready to warn you!
External Articles:
This is a completely new hacking vector, a new
exploitation door opened by researcher Ralf-Philipp
Weinmann.
Every smartphone has a multi-cpu architecture with
an Application processor and a Baseband processor,
both ARM CPU’s and implemented in a single chip.
While Application processors deal with the execution of
the phone tasks, Baseband deals with the protocols in
the air: GSM, UMTS...
According to Ralf, firmware code for the Baseband
was created in 90s and there’s almost no mitigation for
code execution beside hardware DEP implemented in
iPhone 4. This makes exploitation possible, however
no one until now took the time to reverse engineer the
firmware binaries and uncover many, many unchecked
memory copies through memcpy().
The possibilities of running a payload on poorly coded
phones Baseband firmware was also mitigated by the
costs involved in having malicious BTS, base stations
usually operated by carriers, required for the exploitation
to take place.
The researcher, demoed a remote code execution
against a mobile phone through $1250 worth of
equipment simulating a BTS through the OpenBTS
code, an open source project on purpose.
A price that can be afforded by the majority of the
criminals out there considering the potential outcome
presumed by Weinmann: eavesdropping conversations,
stealing corporate passwords, installing rootkits,
propagating worms, bricking phones and so on.
Source: Armanod Romeo,
www.elearnsecurity.com
Not only are Apple fans misguided about the Mac's security, but Apple doesn't take security
as seriously as Microsoft, according to one expert.
Apple fans who claim that the Mac is more secure than PCs not only are wrong, but they're ignorant about their security
risks, says a well-known hacker and security expert who has made a name for himself finding vulnerabilities in Windows.
And Apple itself doesn't take security as seriously as does Microsoft, he claims.
Marc Maiffret, currently chief security architect at security firm FireEye first gained a modicum of fame as a hacker
targeting Microsoft products. For example, he uncovered the security hole that the Code Red worm exploited back I
n 2001 to attack Windows servers.
He's been no stranger to publicity, being one of the hackers featured on MTV's I'm a Hacker, and named as one of
People Magazine's "Next Wave" of people to watch, back in 2004.
In an interview with CNet, he claims that Microsoft takes security more seriously than does Apple, and excoriates
Apple fans as being "ignorant" about security risks.
Maiffret says he believes Microsoft does one of the best jobs in the industry around security, telling CNet:
"From an internal process in how they go about auditing their code and securing software from a technical
perspective, they do have one of the best models. The area they still have room for improvement is around
time lines of how long it takes for them to fix things."
As for Apple and its fans, he has very little good to say, saying that the Mac is vulnerable, and its fans
ignorant about security risks:
"...they try to market themselves as more secure than the PC, that you don't have to worry about viruses,
etc. Anytime there's been a hacking contest, within a few hours someone's found a new Apple vulnerability.
If they were taking it seriously, they wouldn't claim to be more secure than Microsoft because they are very
much not. And the Apple community is pretty ignorant to the risks that are out there as it relates to Apple.
The reason we don't see more attacks out there compared to Microsoft is because their market share isn't
near what Microsoft's is."
And he leaves no doubt that he believes Microsoft as a company pays more attention to security than does
Apple, and says the only reason the Mac hasn't been targeted by malware writers is that it doesn't have a
large enough installed base:
"I think Microsoft does a better job with their code auditing than folks like Apple do. We've only seen a
scratching of the surface as far as Apple vulnerabilities because nobody cares to find them. There's nothing
Inherent with Apple themselves and their development. The only reason Apple gets little increase in security
is because they're running on top of a Unix-based operating system and they can take advantage of some of
the things that have been done for them."
source
http://www.pcworld.com/article/19442...nl_dnx_h_crawl
PS1:
We don't understand your enthusiasm about iPad 2!!!!
PS2: iPhone has great functionalities too, but so all smartphones!
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