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Always promptly install security updates. Other than that, there is no protection from this specific class of vulnerabilities. There are other good security pr
by noident 7y ago
Always promptly install security updates. Other than that, there is no protection from this specific class of vulnerabilities.
There are other good security practices a slightly savvier user can follow, like running a soft firewall and installing fewer apps, but they wouldn't mitigate this vulnerability.
- dylan604 7y agoThis sounds nice in practice, but real world says that there is a greater than zero chance that the quickly released patch can have a negative affect on your device up to bricking the device. As a long time Apple user, I never install version X.0. I wait until at least X.0.1.
- why-oh-why 7y agoI think you’re mistaking the stability of Apple’s x.0 releases as “negative effects” of security patches. x.0 releases do a lot more than patching. Security updates are much smaller and more frequent than even x.x.1 updates
- dylan604 7y agoThere are is such thing as a "security patch" for iOS. If they release an update, they are releasing features as well. How quickly we forget the debacle that is iOS13. This was not a smooth deployment[0]: 13.0.0 9/19/19 13.1 9/24/19 13.1.1 9/27/19 13.1.2 9/30/19 13.1.3 10/15/19 I wait a couple of days to make sure updates are not bricking devices. Waiting just a week saw 3 updates and a 4th within 10 days. Some of those updates saw serious crippling of capabilities of the device after the update. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#iOS_13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#iOS_13
- why-oh-why 7y agoOops, I was talking about macOS releases, not iOS. The numbers don’t match between the two