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A comment on iPhone Privacy.

Re:iPhone Privacy by DougBTX on Saturday December 05, 2009 @09:52AM (#978104)
More details here: http://seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/iPhonePrivacy.pdf

Note that this applies to only applications installed by the user, there is no hacking going on. Much like installing an application on a desktop.

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Re:iPhone Privacy by mikedouglas on Saturday December 05, 2009 @10:11AM (#978116)
Ironic that a talk that mentions distortions in the press around security issues, would be linked to by such a horribly written hit piece. It would be nice if a mod could replace the original link with the pdf above.

The talk finishes with four recommendations:

    1. User should be prompted to authorize read or read-write access to AddressBook
    2. WIFI connection history shouldn’t be readable by “mobile” user
    3. Keyboard cache should be an OS service
    4. iPhone should feature an outgoing firewall
Seems fairly uncontroversial. Hopefully we'll see them in 4.0.
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