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>Apple’s iPhone has been on the market for 10 years now, and it hasn’t experienced a single instance of a mass malware attack like we’ve seen twice in the past
by tpxl 9y ago
>Apple’s iPhone has been on the market for 10 years now, and it hasn’t experienced a single instance of a mass malware attack like we’ve seen twice in the past month on Windows PCs.
>Sure, there have been vulnerabilities, bugs, and near misses, but nobody has been forced to pay $300 to unlock their iPhone after a huge malware attack.
I feel the article is disingenuous by comparing a phone to a PC.
- zimpenfish 9y agoI dunno - your average iPhone is a powerful PC running a complex OS with a (largely) permanent network connection and the owner almost certainly will cough up $100 to unlock given how much people rely on their phones these days. That sounds like a perfect target for hackers to me.
- keyme 9y agoIf all the data on the phone is in the cloud (as it is for most users), unlocking would just be a factory reset of the device. Also, while it is indeed a powerful networked computer, it does a lot less stuff in the background than a PC (and does no "legacy" stuff at all). Unlike a PC, where a thing like SMB is expected to work (even though it's old and buggy).
- tpxl 9y agoYes, but it's not an analogous to a PC. Comparing an iPhone, an Android phone and a Windows phone would be more apt.
- mamcx 9y agoRemember that WRONG idea that windows have a lot of virus because is more popular? This is why is valid.