[LINK] SMH: Apple's Dumbed-Down Smart Phone

[Roger Clarke]

>On 20/10/2010, at 8:59 AM, Roger Clarke wrote:>
>>  "unlike the BlackBerry and other smartphones, the iPhone does not
>>  allow a company's IT staff to install and upgrade its own security
>>  software, leaving business networks at risk of penetration"

At 9:05 +1100 20/10/10, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iPhone_Security_Overview.pdf

I'm deep in other things at the moment.

Is the gist of the Apple document that 'it's secure, and here's how. 
You don't *need* to be able to install anything else under the 
bonnet'?

If so, is the statement right?

I appreciate that the jury may still be out on the second question.

[Declaration:  I'm a 26-year Mac user tending Linux-wards because of 
the company's *increasingly* closed and increasingly manipulative 
philosophy, i.e. I'm inclined to be negatively biased about Apple 
these days.]


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