“As someone who’s been around the block a few times with mobile technology, I get a kick out of lengthy treatises on the practices one should follow to keep the information on your iPhone secure. They follow a commonsense pattern: Use a PIN, set the device to auto-lock after a minimal delay, set it to blank itself after a limited number of invalid unlock attempts, block access to the App Store, use Safari’s security defaults, and use WPA2 security for Wi-Fi. This is helpful, but it isn’t enough. Users of the iPhone, and mobile devices in general, deserve the big picture regarding the balance of security and convenience,” Tom Yager reports or Infoworld.
Yager offers “eight uncommon things you can do” to secure your Apple iPhone:
1. First and foremost, never, ever leave your iPhone unlocked.
2. Keep up with Apple firmware updates.
3. Put your iPhone on a leash.
4. Secure your iTunes host.
5. Don’t jailbreak your iPhone.
6. Hide sensitive data in plain sight.
7. Use FileVault on the Mac or EFS on Vista
8. If you use the iPhone professionally, use Exchange Server for its back end.
Yager writes, “It doesn’t take a lot of time or tech savvy to keep what’s in your iPhone for your eyes only. The oft-repeated recommendations alluded to in the beginning of this story are all worthwhile, but if you augment them creatively, you’ll befuddle the bad guys with techniques they hadn’t considered and that don’t yield to automated cracks. Never overlook unorthodoxy as a means of protection.”
Full article here.
No $hit Sherlock. None of theses added tips are iphone specific at all. they can basiclally apply to any phone….
Looks like a Monday morning “I can’t find anything else to write about” article.
Don’t Jailbreak? How is that secure?
This guy’s an idiot.
The article should actually be titled:
“Eight Paranoid Unecessary Steps to a Stress-filled iPhone Experience.”
Unless you are Dick Cheney, no one actually cares about the information on your iPhone and anyone likely to steal it is going to wipe the data off first thing. Putting a password lock on a device that is rarely if ever out of the hands of the one and only person that purchased it and owns it, is only going to inconvenience *one* person.
Guess who?
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@ jailbird
It’s insecure because you don’t know what the (technically criminal) dudes that unlocked your phone actually did to it. Also it can introduce vulnerabilities to the system.
This is probably the only sensible item in his entire list of “advice.”
…um ok.
trolls! you guys are TROLLS!!
why so grumpy all the time?
Ugh FileVault. Apples worst idea ever. If your system shuts down improperly or the power gets cut in the middle of encrypting or decrypting your home folder, kiss your data goodbye. Forever.
Huh!
You are an idiot.
At minimum, we wouldn’t want strangers (basically, THIEVES if not downright sociopaths) scrolling through our contacts list or photos.
By the way, even though you don’t leave it out of your hands, it means that one day you might be SURPRISED that it is actually stolen. It doesn’t matter HOW. It matters that it’s stolen. And your data with it.