Linux Solution Tackles iPhone AJAX Security
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| The Mobile Security Engine will be integrated in the Convergent Linux
| Platform, which otherwise provides the Linux kernel, all device drivers,
| middleware, browser, Java, Adobe Flash and a core suite of applications such
| as messaging, push-mail, VoIP, streaming multimedia and over-the-air firmware
| updating,
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http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/408695_p.htm
Related:
IPhone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over, Security Firm Says
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| The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that
| tests its clients’ computer security by hacking it, said that they could take
| control of iPhones through a WiFi connection or by tricking users into going
| to a Web site that contains malicious code. The hack, the first reported,
| allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/technology/23iphone.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1185163364-1OTsRJvbylLamj17FY2wnw&oref=slogin
Apple iPhone issue highlights security debate
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| Most early iPhone adopters have bought into the Apple mythology which
| convinces them that anything blessed by Steve Jobs is automatically
| desirable, so we won't see a mass return of the shiny devices with their
| slick interface.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6911756.stm
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