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Nexus One vs. Top 10 Phone Security Requirements
hiouridah writes "Consumer Grade or Enterprise Ready? The Nexus One is entering a smart phone market that is taking increasing heat from enterprises for their lack of robust security features. So how does the Nexus One stack up?"
521MB RAM vs 256MB RAM
800x480 vs 480x320
1Ghz vs 600Mhz
5MP vs 3MP
AMOLED vs TFT
To top it off the nexus one is a slimmer device.
Need I say anymore? The iPhone is no longer king! Hoorah!
Pretty sure that the iPhone was never king among the geeks that care about hardware specs. The iPhone is king among the people who care about the number of apps, user experience, and style. The kind of people who base their decision on what they see on TV, or what their friends like, and not what they read on Slashdot.
You know, the vast majority of the population.
This "feature" is a prime reason I didn't buy an iPhone. I guess as a Security Guy he has to be willing to give up all his freedoms in his quest for security...
If you think imaginary property and real property are the same, when does your house become public domain?
After all, when coding an program they know will be open sourced, programmers are much less likely to add a vulnerable piece of code in the hope it won't be spotted or with the intention to fix it at some later date.
Beg the question much? Your conclusion is just as vague as the one in the article. I don't have any actual data either, but I would venture that accidental bugs are a much much much greater security risk than malicious ones, open source or not. Of course, it's pretty darn hard to spot a cleverly hidden bit of malicious code (and be able to distinguish it from a bug), so we may never know anyway.
Also I'd question what the article means by Android being "in its infancy". Android is based on a well-tested OS that's been around for a while (Linux), the first phone running Android came out about a year ago, and the OS is past v2 (though version numbers don't necessarily tell you anything). I wouldn't call Android a long-running or well-established OS, but it's not like it was slapped together from scratch 6 months ago.
While the default Exchange integration on Android 2.0 doesn't support all of the Exchange security features, Touchdown ( http://www.nitrodesk.com/dk_touchdownFeatures.aspx ) DOES. I used it initially on my DROID and am currently testing the native stuff now that Motorola released a corporate directory app on the app store. Remote wipe *IS* supported by the native android ActiveSync implementation but not PIN security IIRC.
"Fighting the underpants gnomes since 1998!" "Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat"
Yeah, a good user experience and plenty of useful applications that just work. What sort of damned fool would ever want that?