Apple releases iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone and 3.2.2 for iPad, fixes PDF vulnerability
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 11th 2010 3:11PM
posted August 11th 2010 3:11PM
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There will always be exploits. You can't win Apple.
@impulse462
i doubt anybody at apple thinks they've "won." Chillax.
Oh great, another 300 MB download for a tiny bugfix. Sigh. Why can't Apple OTA like others?
@impulse462
THIS. IS. SPARTAAAA! Just felt like a good time to say this. Lol.
@impulse462
Apple is light years ahead of any one else in this front. While Android is actually getting viruses by now, that will never happen on the iPhone. Even the BBC made a spyware demo app that went around stealing data from Android phones easily.
@Almo
Err scratch that, I'm keeping JAILBREAK tyvm!
@Almo - Apple doesn't believe in Firnware Over the Air. Never have since iPods first existed.
Android, WM7, Palm, and BB believe in FOTA patches and less security.
I agree, apple can't end up doing what sony does: updates every 5 minutes to fight firmware hacking. With the jailbreaks now legalized, and Dev Team snappier than ever I think its time to focus on the device, the iPhone Scene is friendly enough. Plus I would suggest the Dev Team has been working on an alternate route since before JailBreakMe was released.
@impulse462 I'm sure as heck not updating.
@HighestRanked1
The BBC app was for Blackberry, not Android but, yes, Android has a hard time coming that will force makers to be more restrictive.
@TomSawyer Did he say that ppl at apple though they won?.....no he just stated a fact so why don't U chillax smh
Downranked for stupidity
@JosephZ - Error correction. Windows Mobile doesn't believe in it. Scratch that. They believe in leaving WM phones dead in the water. 6.5 phones will always be 6.5 firmwares and the rest stick with their own firmware.
@TomSawyer
exactly, Apple never really changed anything to block people from jailbreaking. Not even the system password.
@LowestRanked
Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!! Fanboy pwnage!
1-No OTA updates
2-No freedom for users (like android and somehow Winmo)
3-What do you think exploits are? candy?
4-Do your homework! just because u got an iphone for your birthday doesnt mean you actually know what you are talking about. A vulnerability is as problematic as having a virus on your system. With both you get full control of a device sans Jailbreak. Apple has never and will never be ahead of anyone.
@Vinnymac The main issue is obviously not to stop the jailbreaking, but to stop potential attacks using this exploits that could be really damaging.
@Almo
I'm with you. I only update after the jailbreak. I hate that it takes me so long to get my jailbreak programs back though. I wish they could make iTunes support putting the jailbreak programs on.
@impulse462
There may always be exploits, but finding them will get more and more difficult. I feel bad for the people that actually bought apps through Cydia ... now they have to choose between a secure mobile OS, or having their calendar and weather displayed on their lock screen.
I'm wondering who is going to be fired this time?
@Mike10010100
Back? I never left son. I've never been banned.
@HighestRanked1
You've been banned repeatedly. First HighestRanked, then HighestRanked2, and now this. Most likely there were a few intermediate accounts. Now get thee gone, troll. Get banned.
@impulse462
Amen
@Mike10010100 Hey look! This guy over here thinks people give a shit!!
@HighestRanked1 please show me the android viruses. Also, please show me proof that the iPhone remains free of security issues.
We get you love your apple products. We don't need your misinformation or ignorant product bashing.
@heathmaxie and legionssolution
Wow. People sure are bitter when I point out someone who is violating the TOS by coming back after being banned.
@Almo
Why "patch" it!? Just install PDF Loading Warner from Cydia...
@Almo why can't apple PATCH. You know - like replace only the bad code not the whole freaking OS?
@Almo dont update
@impulse462
The more you people down-rank me the more you confirm that I am right.
Apple is light years ahead of any one else in smart phone safety: controlling the safety of apps and controlling anti-priacy safety.
Google set up a hobbyist DYI platform without actual intellectual property protection. Consequently content providers, (the people who slave over computers all day to create the cool apps everyone likes) get ripped off. Users simply copy files around, get refunded and copy the app files back. According to a report at Silicon Alley Insider - Piracy of Android’s top 10 apps world-wide:
97% are pirated in Asia
70% are pirated in Europe
43% are pirated in North America
It's really hard to setup a business that way. Junk apps which can be created using the soon to be released drag and drop Android app creator will proliferate, but the really cool professional apps may not come to the Android platform since content providers don’t get paid most of the time.
Android's Serious Piracy Problem Costs Developers Big Money
http://www.businessinsider.com/android-piracy-2010-8
Apple creates a safe ecosystem to support the App Store, Business and Messaging and it's far more difficult to pirate on the iPhone. This means sustainable growth in the future. Apps in the Apple business system are reasonably priced but app creators know they can sell a lot of apps and the money can be quite good. Consequently, piracy on iOS is a drop in the bucked compared to Android's. The Android store has run away best sellers in it, but if most of the users stole their copy, what is the use? By and large, the average quality of Android apps will always be inferior to what the iTunes store can offer. The economic infrastructure Apple presents is a powerful incentive to it’s developer community.
Android App Sales Still Half The Size Of iPhone's
http://www.businessinsider.com/android-game-developer-com2us-2010-8
I am Highest Ranked!
@HighestRanked1
Which is why Cydia is full of alternate app stores that have plenty of pirated apps?
Pirating exists everywhere, even moreso when you lock down the platform. Not to mention 3.0 is supposedly increasing security on apps from the app store by requiring them to "check in".
From your own article regarding App sales for Android:
"The app market for the iPhone is much larger says Lim, but the real difference was iPhone hardware used to be much better. That made games on the iPhone better and more popular. Now the hardware on Android is much better, and that should start to balance the markets, he thinks."
Also, where do you get your proof for your assertion that "By and large, the average quality of Android apps will always be inferior to what the iTunes store can offer."?
Why do you continue to come back after being banned repeatedly?
@Mike10010100
I don't know what you are talking about Mike the cat, I've never been banned, in fact you can't provide any evidence and are making up lies only because you disagree with my opinions. So quit trolling.
@HighestRanked1
I can show you the aftermath of your bannings:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/19/apple-patent-reveals-igroups-location-based-social-networking-fo/comments/26359845/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/microsoft-to-employees-everybody-gets-a-windows-phone-7/comments/29441228/
http://www.engadget.com/profile/3389817/ (set to private after banning)
@impulse462 or you could just jailbreak your 4.0.1 iPhone and let that fix the vulnerability, plus you get a jb phone =)
@Mike10010100
Ohh the innocence of this Mike the cat guy. So you insist that the minuscule piracy going on in the iPhone equals the rampant free-for-all piracy in Android. Ahahahaha!
Good devs don't want to release on Android because it's extremely easy for people to steal their work. Google built zero safety contol mechanisms to prevent theft.
But you claim that having "better hardware" will somehow make up for Google's massive and severe lack of intellectual propery safety policies. Wow.
The "better" hardware might be an incentive for some devs to release some apps in Android, but then everyone will go right back to easily stealing the apps and then the devs will be very sorry for their mistake. I know what you're going to say: "but but, Google is releasing a safety mechanism to cut back on piracy!" and I'll tell you, since Android is sooooo open, within hours there will be a patch to defeat the safety and people will be right back at stealing software. This is a battle Google will never be able to win.
Meanwhile Apple is making it harder and harder to jailbreak the iPhone. Thus maintaing a safe and healthy business environment where the great majority of people consume software legitimately and devs can release high quality apps without much fear of being ripped off. This is one of the many things that will always keep the App Store light years away from the competition. :-)
I am Highest Ranked!
@Mike10010100
Again, I don't know what you're talking about son, that's not me in those other pages. Quit making up lies.
@HighestRanked1
You are most certainly the exact same person. You can expect to be banned again.
"Ohh the innocence of this Mike the cat guy. So you insist that the minuscule piracy going on in the iPhone equals the rampant free-for-all piracy in Android. Ahahahaha!"
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2009/03/31/wireds-guide-to-iphone-piracy/
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/15/report-piracy-has-cost-apple-iphone-devs-450-million/
Miniscule? Certainly not as high as Android to be sure, but Piracy on the iPhone is no laughing matter. Android is expected to curb piracy by increasing app security in 3.0.
"Good devs don't want to release on Android because it's extremely easy for people to steal their work. Google built zero safety contol mechanisms to prevent theft."
Not with 3.0. Look it up.
"But you claim that having "better hardware" will somehow make up for Google's massive and severe lack of intellectual propery safety policies. Wow."
I don't. The article that you JUST POSTED says this. The same people that you cited earlier said that better hardware will increase the number of apps written for it.
"and I'll tell you, since Android is sooooo open, within hours there will be a patch to defeat the safety and people will be right back at stealing software. This is a battle Google will never be able to win."
And piracy is a battle that Apple will never win either. Denying that piracy happens on one platform while emphasizing it on another platform is idiotic. You really don't understand how the mechanism works, do you? The app itself checks in to make sure you've installed it legally. Modifying Android will not do anything, as the entire authentication process happens in the cloud.
http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20011980-251.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
"Meanwhile Apple is making it harder and harder to jailbreak the iPhone."
ROFL. This last exploit was discovered easily and quickly, and only just now was plugged up. Give it a couple days and I assure you that the iPhone will be jailbroken again. This latest surge of easy-fix jailbreaking might just push the iPhone piracy levels up a bit.
@Dusse I completely agree, it just frustrates me when the updates come out so back to back. It can seem very childish when it comes from a company earning so much. Hehe.
@Almo OTA update will be the revolutionary feature in iPhone 5 and iOS 5.0.
@James Sonne well i got the PDF loader app from (ironically) cydia which serves pretty well as a guard for that security patch. not updating till the dev team work more magic. I choose to have my mail/weather/twitter on my lock screen..
and bitesms! ftw.
@Mike10010100
I don't know what who you're talking about Mike the cat. As always, you're smoking somehing good.
Ahahah!!! Your classic war and peace style replies(tm). That along makes you a laughing topic. But anyway, Google severely failed to even bother building a safety framework in Android, so no matter how many piracy holes they plug, the entire ship is sinking. Hackers will simply release a quick patch that catches apps calling home and fake a response. Easy.
Apple is in a far superior position and light years ahead of Android. Apple started from the begining with a fairly robust intellectual property anti-theft system which at the same time provided a safe and robust business platform for devs. The stronger anti-jailbreaking measures of the iPhone (in comparisson with the wide-open, non-existing safety of Android) significantly deters the greatest majority of users from stealing. Jailbreaking will always stay at around 10% and iPhone piracy a smaller subset thereof.
Piracy will always be the hallmark of a deeply flawed Android platform.
@HighestRanked1
"Ahahah!!! Your classic war and peace style replies(tm). That along makes you a laughing topic."
Considering that my post was shorter than your first post? Yeah, who's the laughing stock now, troll?
"Piracy will always be the hallmark of a deeply flawed Android platform."
Not with 3.0. Get banned again, troll.
@ericrwalker Now that is asking for a bit too much!
@HighestRanked1
"I don't know what who you're talking about Mike the cat. As always, you're smoking somehing good."
So you're not either of those previous accounts with both the exact same user name and typing style. However, apparently you know exactly how Mike10010100 behaves and have the same idiotic nickname for him? If you're going to try and pretend to be a different person, maybe you should, you know, actually be a different person? I don't know why that isn't obvious...
WHERE IS MY PROXIMITY SENSOR UPDATE
MY BIG FACE KEEP HANGING UP ON PEOPLE
@rmbrown09
It's weird how there is very little coverage of this issue, along with several other minor niggles... They're definitely enough to be annoying.
@Mike10010100 yep, just finished the update and I am definitely un-jailbroken.
@rmbrown09 You had to update to figure that out???? Were you held under water in the gene pool?
Solution, don't update. I doubt the Dev Team will waste another exploit on such a minor update.
@fingers Would mean that you are vulnerable for eventual exploits of this stuff though.
@Dusse
No because when you jailbreak you can download a fix thru Cydia that will prevent anyone else from using the exploit you just used to jailbreak your phone.
@Dusse
Well yes, but that's par for the course. I think the benefits of jailbreaking far outweigh the downsides of opening a malicious PDF, common sense would dictate that you only open one from a trusted source, thus negating the dangers.