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Regarding: With the recent security issues with Android phones (this will happen with Apple apps too, but maybe to a smaller degree) Apple's controls are lookin
by yumraj 16y ago
Regarding: With the recent security issues with Android phones (this will happen with Apple apps too, but maybe to a smaller degree) Apple's controls are looking nicer and nicer.
I respectfully disagree. App approval process has nothing, repeat nothing, to do with security.
As an example I can create a time-bomb app, which does nothing nasty for 6 months and then once it is deployed on several Apple devices it begins to do whatever it was programmed to do.
There is no way an app approval process can handle that or catch that. That requires disassembly and careful analysis of the source or disassembled code.
That apps on Apple's devices are more secure is an illusion.
- drewcrawford 16y ago> That apps on Apple's devices are more secure is an illusion. You're 100% on the money, but it's an illusion that the users believe in. It's a war of public opinion, and Apple is winning.
- forgottenpaswrd 16y ago"That apps on Apple's devices are more secure is an illusion." Yeah, and careful sandboxing of each app and control of the functions you use has nothing to do with security either. Apple knows what functions you use and when, and the data you send receive using them. They know the format, nothing else is needed. That's one of the reason they only let you use documented calls. For me its easy to make a software that monitors that activity,so with so many people smarter than me, I can not imagine that Apple has not done it. I know they have automated tools for analyzing Apps proposals, so I'm confident they monitor live the apps activity.