The dailyapps crew on the iPhone 1.1.2 Update:
The Cat and Mouse game is on, and this time its Apple that’s got the upper hand over the Hackers. Apple has just released the firmware update to Apple iPhone.
As expected the TIFF vulnerability has been fixed, thus the usual jailbreak methodologies fail. Using vulnerabilities to open up a platform to third party applications has always struck me as one-hundred-and-ten percent the wrong ideology to follow. Sure, it may work.. for a time.
But using a failure in security to then punch an even larger, risker hole through to run third-party applications? It’s an inevitable recipe for disaster and someone is going to take advantage of that, eventually.
≡ This is a brief remainders entry relating to the topics of apple, hacks, hardware and written in response to an external article, comment or opinion — refer linked article for completeness and context.
Brendan Borlase is a Systems and Network Administrator living in Adelaide, Australia, having lived, worked and breathed Information Technology for over 12 years. Learn more.
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