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How Apple's iOS Went From Insecure To Most Secure

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shaking-in-my-boots dept.

GMGruman writes "There's no such thing as a perfectly secure operating system, but security experts agree — somewhat grudgingly in some cases — that iOS, Apple's mobile operating system, is the most secure commercial OS today, mobile or desktop. It didn't start that way of course, and Robert Lemos explains what Apple did to go from insecure to most secure."

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  1. An ultimately secure OS by dmt0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    An ultimately secure OS would be the one that does not do anything at all. No inputs and no outputs. Perhaps iOS is closer to that ideal than any other.

    1. Re:An ultimately secure OS by Flyerman · · Score: 3, Funny

      The Ultimate Machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw2Bq0HYu1M

  2. Agreed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sent from your iPhone.

  3. Re:Most Secure? by jo_ham · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's just the reverse of the enormously slanted "Apple is definitely phasing out OS X and locking it down and will force people to only buy from the App Store" article earlier, just with the "anti-Apple" bias changed to "pro-Apple".

    There must be balance in the ad-impression linkbait, lest the universe implode.

  4. Re:Frist to get jailbroken... by Enry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jailbreaking is not really a security problem. Firstly, because "jailbreaking" just means allowing unsigned code to run.

    Why don't you re-read that and tell me where your logic flaw is.