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Apple iPhone v1.0.1 Update Now Available
The Webguy writes "Apple has released the first update for the iPhone. Updated components in the v1.0.1 update include Safari, the WebCore, and the WebKit. Quoting from the Apple Knowledge Base, the 'update is only available through iTunes, and will not appear in your computer's Software Update application, or on the Apple Support Downloads site.'" One source speculated that Apple wanted to get fixes in users' hands ahead of the Black Hat conference where details of early iPhone vulnerabilities could be revealed.
first post you mother fucking bitches
It's already in the apple section. FUCK.
WTF?
Why is a copy & paste from the linked article (hosted on a site unlikely to be slashdotted) informative?
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
It's in the IT section, too, moron.
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I never said it wasn't. DUMFUCK. DAMN
lamest comment ever
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The regular crowd shuffles in
Theres an old man sitting next to me
He says, son, can you play me a memory?
The reason nerds are downmodding your comment isn't (just) because they have no sense of humor but likely because your misapplication of the old NO CARRIER joke is painful to read. Equipped with both Wi-Fi and GSM, the iPhone neither contains nor requires a telephone modem, let alone a controller-equipped smart serial modem that uses the Hayes command set.
(You could conceivably use a bluetooth modem with the iPhone someday, assuming they add support for this, but that would be so you could type your messages from your laptop when you weren't near a Wi-Fi hot spot -- the iPhone itself wouldn't be needing or using it.)
Sony constantly releases updates to the firmware for the PSP to counter the constant streams of hacks that allow people to put their own software on the PSP (and pirate games). This is generally considered on slashdot to be another sign of Sony's inherent evil nature.
Now Apple seems to be releasing updates to the software for the iPhone to counter the constant streams of hacks that allow people to put their own software on the iPhone (possibly pirated games if the iPhone did games and in any case Apple doesn't make games). I wonder how the slashdot crowd will see this. The attempts of an evil company to lock people out of using the hardware they bought in the way they see fit?
Oh okay, so you could say that these patches fix genuine flaws that could put the user at risk. This is just the first patch. We will have to see how often this happens to see if it starts to follow the PSP patch path.
Still it is intresting to see just how the attitudes change on slashdot depending on the company name. Oh and the bot-checking image containted the word adders. In dutch there is a saying, "addertje onder het gras" (adder under the gras) which means roughly beware of something nasty being hidden in something which seems nice and safe.
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You know how Steve mentioned three things when he introduced the iPhone? Well, two out of three ain't bad--mine wasn't a phone for about 24 hours (and didn't bother to tell me):
Either this update better address phone-freeze or I'm gonna have to reboot every 24 hours (or chuck it)...
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wow...dumbfuck...who cares? it's still dumb like you and the iPhone...dumbfuck shit...
look i can be loud too...idiot...
uuuh...you are a fucking piece of shit retard with a large quantity of rocks for brains? Your mom is a cheap whore and you are the product of a botched abortion?
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Quickly and easily? That's crap, and you know it. Quickly and easily would be for the iPhone to update over the air, like the T-Mobile Sidekick does. Having to connect the device to a PC running iTunes isn't "quick" or "easy".
Tell me, how is IT is going to push patches to the device?
How are users going to know to apply the patch? Maybe we should send a memo - but who will read it? What if users don't fire up iTunes frequently? What if they have disabled patching?
How do we ensure compliance? What's to stop iPhone 1.0 users/devices from connecting and downloading sensitive data?
Apple can't answer these questions because they've never handled deploying iPhones in a managed environment. As Apple deploys more devices in their own organization, I suspect their management tools will mature.
Oh, really? Because so far I'm counting zero. That's not to say that there aren't any, but I have never seen any attack on Windows Mobile other than a proof-of-concept.
The iPhone isn't ready for the enterprise because you can't manage it. You can't force users to use a PIN (BlackBerry/Windows Mobile can), you can't encrypt the contents of the device (BlackBerry/Windows Mobile can), and you can't remotely wipe the device (BlackBerry/Windows Mobile can).
Here's a pop quiz - the CFO's iPhone is lost/stolen. What do you do?
Bullshit. Mac OS X is fundamentally unchanged from when Tiger came out two years ago. By your logic, we should count every Microsoft update rollup as a "new version". Even major new versions of Mac OS leave most of the OS unchanged.
You have no idea how patching works in IT. We don't necessarily WANT users to have "all the patches applied", at least not right away. IT needs to control patch delivery to limit compatibility issues. Or do you believe that patches never break anything?
Windows Mobile 6 devices can be patched over the air, and patch delivery can be managed with a variety of third-party tools. Thus far it has not been particularly necessary. We live in a world of differnet devices running different software. Attacking mobile devices doesn't make sense.
Our CTO has an iPhone. He also carries a BlackBerry. Pretending the iPhone is ready for the business environment doesn't make it so.
The whole point was they don't need to, because it's easily handled by the user.
This is, by far, the most ignorant security comment on Slashdot I have ever read. You are a fool sir, at least when it comes to security.
Horns are really just a broken halo.
I am constantly amazed at the moderation when it comes to anything about Apple. Parent is most certainly not trolling, and seems to show a lot of understanding about how a corporate environment needs to manage mobile devices.
This is an apples and oranges discussion though, since the iPhone was never *meant* to be used in a corporate environment. Apple wouldn't even sell them to people with AT&T business accounts.
Anyways, parent should have been modded +5 Informative, since the statements were quite accurate, if not what fanbois wanted to hear.
yeah they *always* ask... or they break libraries so one must upgrade to even open itunes.
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