Obviously it's pointless to trust a device to tell you if it can be trusted or not, but it's going to take a while for the enterprise market to figure this out.

Obviously it's pointless to trust a device to tell you if it can be trusted or not, but it's going to take a while for the enterprise market to figure this out. They want badly for it to be possible and there are plenty of huckster develpers out there to tell them what they want to hear. What will make it especially hard to accept is that they've had nothing but BlackBerries for a good decade now and that platform can more or less be trusted, but only because it's never been rooted. And the only reason it's never been rooted is because nobody really cares. Really, I think IT will just have to adapt to the idea that a smartphone is a personal device and can only be trusted as much as its user, and it lives outside the firewall. It's probably for the best anyway because phones are very personal and I would find it creepy to carry one around that was controlled by my employer.