How Apple's iOS Went From Insecure To Most Secure

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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Re:Frist to get jailbroken...

[poetmatt]

not only that, but the comments are hilarious as are the arguments:

* A sandbox isolates programs, and iOS's memory organization makes exploitation more difficult.
        * Applications that run on the iOS are vetted by Apple and can be removed if found to be malicious.
        * Patches can be quickly applied to the iPhone and iPad to close security holes in the operating system.
        * The software is regularly reviewed, especially its open source components.
        * The platform has the advantage of attacker psychology -- attackers still target smartphones far less than desktop systems.

This is hilarious, considering that the sandbox is the only true thing. Patching is known to break things continually (and done to break things - hello anti-jailbreak?), apple doesn't vet third party apps - you think they vet the browsers or MS office on mac? Said things are open and known security breaches. Same argument can be made for microsoft and google's first party apps being vetted (no shit) on that, and I'm not even a microsoft fan.
Attacker psychology? What joke of a phrase is that? That's as anecdotal as it gets.

So in summary, the thing apple does right is put things in a sandbox. that is all. Infoworld sure does have a hardon for apple sometimes.