“With its science fiction features and high-end price tag, Apple’s iPhone may be the ultimate executive toy. All the uber-gadget lacks, according to some security professionals, is executive-level security. And that, they worry, makes the iPhone a hacker’s playground,” Andy Greenberg reports for Forbes.
“‘It seems Apple is releasing a device with no thought to enterprise security,’ says Andrew Storms, director of operations of the computer security firm nCircle. ‘It’s going to be entering enterprise networks whether we like it or not, and it’s a nightmare for security teams.’ Storms, like most everyone else anticipating the iPhone launch, admits that his worries are largely limited to speculation,” Greenberg reports.
MacDailyNews Take: It bears repeating: His worries, like most everyone else’s, are largely limited to speculation. The iPhone runs Mac OS X, by the way. Some “security nightmare.”
Greenberg populates the rest of his speculative piece on quote from the esteemed likes of not only Rob Enderle, who Greenberg laughingly identifies as a “security consultant who heads the Enderle Group” (a “group” which consists of Rob and his wife, by the way), but also from David Maynor. That’s David “If you watch those ‘Get a Mac’ commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette” Maynor. You tried it with Safari, it didn’t work, Dave, still trying to to fulfill your wants? Also of interest, please see the related article: SecureWorks admits falsifying Apple MacBook ‘60-second wireless hijacking?’ – August 18, 2006
In short, this Forbes article is a joke, a hit piece, just one of many pieces of FUD we seem to have to endure for some time to come.
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