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BlackBerry PlayBook First Tablet To Gain NIST Approval

Posted by timothy on from the perfect-for-bureaucrats dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Despite its current struggles to win over consumers, RIM has always been strong in the enterprise. The company remained steadfast in its support for corporate environments with the launch of the PlayBook, calling it the only business-grade tablet. The NIST is now ready to back that claim, giving the BlackBerry PlayBook its stamp of approval — meaning it's now the lone tablet that is certified for use in U.S. government agencies."

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  1. Re:Idiotic password management by mysidia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apparently iOs devices will retry a failing password over and over locking out the account.

    This is a minor nit with the iPad itself, but a MAJOR FLAW in the network device/server the iPad is logging into.

    Before you should talk with Apple about this, you need to talk with whatever vendor is providing that server with the account lockout policy that allows one misconfig'ed device to DoS an account.

    That is... a sane network login server application would tarpit the network device attempting to login, not lock the account itself.