Intego's "Year In Mac Security" Report

david.emery notes the release of Intego's "Year In Mac Security" report (PDF), adding: "Mac OS X and iPhones that haven't been jailbroken fare pretty well (although vulnerabilities exist, there's not been a lot of exploitation). Apple does come in for criticism for 'time to fix' known vulnerabilities. Jailbroken iPhones are a mess. The biggest risk to Macs are Trojan horses, often from pirated software."

Comments

Re:With great freedom comes great resposibility

[JasonBee]

I'm not sure what you mean by "basic functionality".

My iPhone isn't broken and I have tethering enabled. Sounds like your problem is with AT&T. I'm in Canada under Fido/Rogers so YMMV.

With "both" companies my tethering is enabled with a quick call. My provider asserts that my data plan must be 1 GB or higher, but this is largely to protect me from ignorantly going over my data plan usage allowances. I go to my settings and turn on tethering. There is no step three ;)

As for "applications that Apple doesn't [sic] like", you must mean malware, trojans, and data theft mechanisms. If you want to run those by all means do so. You could save yourself some trouble and just write your date of birth and credit card numbers on a placard and hang that around your neck when you head to the mall.

But I keed.

Re:With great freedom comes great resposibility

[BitZtream]

And never once in 10 years have I had a reason to delete a single call from my call log. Perhaps the reason that the feature doesn't exist is because no one of any importance gives a shit? You're asking for a feature with almost 0 usefulness unless you're trying to hide something from someone close to you to perpetuate some lie you've told. In which case, you could just delete the entire call log.

Honestly I don't know how anyone can use their iPhone without jailbreaking it, unless they're not really using it as a smartphone so they're not installing applications, using data, etc.

I can only assume you mean that because you can't delete a single entry in the call log that you think the phone is unusable, since you most certainly can install applications and use data from multiple networks or local storage.

If a phone isn't useful to you because you can't delete a single entry from the call log, I'm sorry for you as your life must be very very sad, I truly and sincerely suggest you seek counseling, what you have is very unhealthy.