Pentagon Opens Network to iOS and Android, Dealing Huge Blow to BlackBerry

Re:Pentagon Opens Network to iOS and Android, Dealing Huge B... by jivatmanx on Monday October 29, 2012 @05:37PM (#4714613)

Hmm... I thought that they would want to limit it to one or the other, for security purposes.

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Re:Pentagon Opens Network to iOS and Android, Dealing Huge B... by georgemcbay on Monday October 29, 2012 @06:45PM (#4714944)

It only makes sense to use a single platform if that platform has proven to be more secure than the others. Neither Android nor iOS has proven to be inherently more secure than the other (both have had plenty of in-the-wild exploits... the basis of most jailbreaking is due to such exploits).

If neither platform is provably more secure, it makes more sense to allow both because in a fully homogeneous environment a single new exploit opens all the doors while in a mixed system environment, it only opens a subset of them.

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Re:Pentagon Opens Network to iOS and Android, Dealing Huge B... by m0nastic on Monday October 29, 2012 @09:16PM (#4715532)

If it's not a BYOD environment, you can pick one specific recent Android handset, or replace the OS with a custom image, and you have about 80% of what iOS allows for management (which is in turn about 80% of what BES provided).

In a BYOD environment (which my current company is piloting), Android makes it much more of a nightmare, but thankfully almost everyone here has iPhones.

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Re:Pentagon Opens Network to iOS and Android, Dealing Huge B... by pavel_lishin on Monday October 29, 2012 @05:50PM (#4714685)

How do you mean?

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