Motorola: Apple will not open the iPhone
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| CTIA The senior director of entertainment products at Motorola questions
| whether Apple will truly "open up" the iPhone.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/25/motorola_says_iphone_will_not_be_open/
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Consumer-control industry and their security damnation
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| Apple "opening up" iPhone to third party software will solve neither the
| security problem nor the problem of a closed nature of the platform if most
| of this third party software remains proprietary and if it will have to adapt
| to certain Apple-specific rules to work on an iPhone, meaning that a program
| written for iPhone may not work on other phones. Security by obscurity has
| been proven ineffective and "opening up" to third party development while
| still dictating the conditions of this development is not even near "open".
| It is just another con leaving them plenty of room to build a controlled
| monopoly.
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http://www.libervis.com/article/consumer_control_industry_and_their_security_damnation
iPhone Security Hellhole?
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| First, the iPhone root password was broken. OK, it happens. But now it seems
| that all applications run on the iPhone as root. Can you say biggest security
| blunder of the 21st century to date?
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2191348,00.asp
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
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