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From: Kurt Ullman on 1 Dec 2009 19:37
In article <011220091322446617%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>,
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <hf3fv5$kd1$1(a)posting2.glorb.com>, WindsorFox
> <windsor.fox.usenet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Someone said it's impossible to get malware on an iPhone, my question
> > was are you willing to bet everything you have on that belief?
>
> nothing is impossible so your question is basically a straw man.
>
> the point is that the risk of iphone malware is effectively zero
> because everything is codesigned and sandboxed. someone would have to
> find an exploit and then figure out how to turn it into something evil.
> not that simple.

And after all that sneak it past the iTunes store approval process.
Even less simple.

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and the phones don't ring at all.
If once, you've slept on an island.
Scott Kirby "If once you've slept on an island"

From: Kurt Ullman on 2 Dec 2009 11:06
In article <hf619n$tpf$1(a)posting2.glorb.com>,
"WindsorFox<[SS]>" <windsor.fox.usenet(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you willing to bet everything you have on the idea that it is
> impossible or almost impossible for malware to run on an iPhone? Very
> simple, yes or no. Now show us all the magnitude of your intelligence.

Yes. Now dazzle us with your intelligence and tell us why you don't.

--
To find that place where the rats don't race
and the phones don't ring at all.
If once, you've slept on an island.
Scott Kirby "If once you've slept on an island"

From: nospam on 2 Dec 2009 11:15
In article <hf60g5$tkp$3(a)posting2.glorb.com>, WindsorFox
<windsor.fox.usenet(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> >> the point is that the risk of iphone malware is effectively zero
> >> because everything is codesigned and sandboxed. someone would have to
> >> find an exploit and then figure out how to turn it into something evil.
> >> not that simple.
> >
> > And after all that sneak it past the iTunes store approval process.
> > Even less simple.
>
> Or in email or a website through wifi, even simpler.

and how exactly can malware propagate on an iphone via email or a web
site??
From: nospam on 2 Dec 2009 11:15
In article <hf60ee$tkp$2(a)posting2.glorb.com>, WindsorFox
<windsor.fox.usenet(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> You just said it again, "effectively zero." ARE you or not willing
> to risk everything that you own on that fact? Simple.

straw man. *nothing* is 100% fail safe, but i'm not at all worried
about malware on an iphone or a mac. it's *far* more likely that
something *else* will go wrong, like a hard drive failure, theft, etc.
and even that is relatively rare.
From: nospam on 2 Dec 2009 17:51
In article <hf6cbh$vad$5(a)posting2.glorb.com>, WindsorFox
<windsor.fox.usenet(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> > and how exactly can malware propagate on an iphone via email or a web
> > site??
>
> The same way it does on any other connected device.

nonsense.

the operating system is entirely different, the holes aren't there and
on the iphone, everything is code signed & sandboxed. email attachments
are not executed, you can't download anything from a web page and
nothing has access to the operating system even if they did.
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