Slashdot Mirror
Apple Blocking iPhone Security Software
Barence writes "Speaking exclusively to PC Pro, Eugene Kaspersky has claimed Apple has repeatedly refused to deliver the software development kit necessary to design security software for the phone. 'We have been in contact for two years with Apple to develop our anti-theft software, [but] still we do not have permission,' said Kaspersky. Although he admits the risk of viruses infecting the iPhone is 'almost zero,' he claims that securing the data on the handset is critical, especially as iPhones are increasingly being used for business purposes. 'I don't want to say Apple's is the wrong way of behaving, or the right way,' Kaspersky added. 'It's just a corporate culture — it wants to control everything.'"
On Tom's hardware Jonathan Ian Schwartz gets a career whitewash job.
After Scott McNeally got booted out of Sun's through Steve Ballmer's $ 2 billion
"rescue" job to keep Sun running, which effectively shut McNeally up from
all hostile keynote speech comments about Microsoft, its now Jonathan Schwartz
who gets his hair greased big time at tomshardware.com :
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Steve-Jobs-Jonathan-Schwartz-Sun,9844.html
Reportedly it was Schwartz who co-founded [b]Lighthouse Design Ltd.[/b] in 1989 and
therefor has supplied Steve Jobs his NeXtStep Software. This sounds rather far-fetched
to me as at the time when Schwartz joined Sun Microsystems nothing of this was mentioned.
Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist