[News] iPhone Should Have Used Linux Stack for Security
Roy Schestowitz
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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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| The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that
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| to a Web site that contains malicious code. The hack, the first reported,
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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
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