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New Zealand Frontline Police Get Apple Devices in Efficiency Measure
mask.of.sanity writes "Thousands of New Zealand frontline police will be armed with smartphones and tablets from this year in an efficiency initiative that the force hopes will save millions of dollars. NZ Police say the devices are Apple iPhones and iPads. These will be password protected and can be wiped remotely if lost. Police declined to say if the devices and their communications will be encrypted."
By buying a ton of most expensive hardware you can find.... brilliant.
"Police declined to say if the devices and their communications will be encrypted."
In other words, they aren't. Otherwise, which reason would the police to not tell?
I'm sure it'd hurt like hell getting hit in the head by an iPhone a cop threw but wouldn't it be cheaper to arm them with pointed sticks?
So let us know when all the Android devices being sold in China running gingerbread can be updated.
Or any trusted source in China to install from.
And please point out one malware virus on iOS.
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Let's hope they don't need the maps feature!
And how is this different from the zillions of successful hacks against the dominant Windows world for laptops, or Android world for smartphones?
Becasue by using Apple devices you join the Sith....
Apple employees will be remotely wiping the devices when names of friends show up on searches / arrest lists.
You don't know how the remote wipes work, do you? That's not possible nor would it even help if you spent one second thinking about how police would use the devices.
This will NOT end well.
Not for Apple Haters, no. Because more the despised Apple products are showing deep value again.
How the hell can they say it will save costs when they chose the most abhorrently expensive devices to start with
Curious how a device can be "abhorrently" expensive. It sure seems like you have some deep emotional issues you're bringing to the table there.
iOS devices are a LITTLE more expensive. But for instance, what if they needed cell capability? What other "less abhorrent" tablet with baked in cellular support would they buy pray-tell?
And what about support? What other tablet has the level of support Apple offers in that region?
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There's always malware on any operating system, including IOS. While Apple does a good job at preventing it, they can't prevent it 100% of the time. Here are a few articles talking about malware on iOS for those who think it doesn't exist.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/07/06/first-ios-malware-hits-app-store/
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/08/29/finfisher-malware-goes-mobile-infects-android-iphone-blackberry/
http://www.redmondpie.com/another-malware-app-sneaks-into-ios-app-store/
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/238101/scitech/hacker-reveals-ios-malware-vulnerability-gets-punished
http://www.techpluto.com/ios-malware/
Number of malware that came through the App Store - ie non-jailbroken phones - One.
Charlie Fisher's proof of concept. Which wasn't actual malware.
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