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Sounds like a plan to make iOS the default for highly-placed government employees. Maybe that's already the case, but I thought I remembered that Obama had to h
by TheRealDunkirk 4y ago
Sounds like a plan to make iOS the default for highly-placed government employees. Maybe that's already the case, but I thought I remembered that Obama had to have 2 phones, and the "secure" one wasn't an iPhone. Anyone have any more knowledge about this?
- ceejayoz 4y agoThe secure one was a BlackBerry for a while. https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11910306/obama-upgrades-from-blackberry https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/11/11910306/obama-upgrades-f...
- easton 4y agoI'm guessing it isn't, if only because this feature completely disables MDM (which you'd need in government or business to do things like remote wipes or passcode policies). It looks to be designed for people that are possible targets to use on their personal phone, which shouldn't have work data on it. (Of course, they could make some new MDM policies to individually turn these features on. You can already block external devices with MDM, and you can completely disable FaceTime/iMessage/iCloud. It wouldn't be much of a jump to add the more granular protections this has.)
- bad416f1f5a2 4y agoI think you’ve misread this announcement: it doesn’t appear that MDM is disabled. It merely looks like you cannot change MDM settings, including enrolling, while this feature is active.
- InitialLastName 4y agoAt least at the start of the Obama Administration, he was known to be hooked on his Blackberry [0], and I know RIM did a lot of work to provide secured devices to government officials. I don't know what government officials are using since RIM went under though. [0] https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna28780205 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna28780205