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iPhone 3.0 Update Delivers Prodigious Patch Batch

Posted by timothy on from the switched-housemate's-iphone-to-danish dept.

CWmike writes "Apple patched 46 security vulnerabilities in the iPhone and iPod Touch, half of them in the Safari browser and its WebKit rendering engine, as it released iPhone OS 3.0 on Wednesday. One of the patched WebKit vulnerabilities stands out because of the attention it received in March, when a German college student, Nils, walked away with a $5,000 cash prize for hacking Safari at the Pwn2Own challenge. Nils used a bug in WebKit's handling of SVGList objects to crack Safari."

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  1. Well that's just fantastic by keeegan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But when are they going to patch these security flaws on my 2.1 ipod? Paying for an update is ridiculous, especially when it fixes critical security flaws. I sure hope apple does the right thing.

  2. Re:I am disappointed! by sexconker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What are they going to do? Stop taking your money every month?

  3. Re:I am disappointed! by vux984 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Download caps and the price per GB we pay far exceed their costs.

    for what its worth, cellular networks -- the topic at hand, are a completely different ballgame vs broadband. A few dozen people streaming movies can saturate a cell site that can normally support thousands of voice calls.