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The 'best' method to keep viruses off an OS is what Apple is doing with the iphone - reviewing every app by hand before it is allowed to run on the OS. Even tha
by TrevorJ 17y ago
The 'best' method to keep viruses off an OS is what Apple is doing with the iphone - reviewing every app by hand before it is allowed to run on the OS. Even that is far from foolproof though, and it has a whole host of other problems.
- tptacek 17y agoApple doesn't appear to review iPhone applications for security.
- blasdel 17y agoThey aren't actually reviewing apps by hand, the reviewers aren't remotely competent enough to make any technical assessments at all. They don't even review obvious copyright / trademark infringement! They don't do any basic static analysis of your object code, even to check for private symbols, and they don't have your source code. They don't even take the obvious step of having some APIs be mutually exclusive! Their process is as immature as it could possibly be. I had assumed the reviewers were mouthbreathers from a temp agency, but apparently they are actual Apple employees! It's possible that they're just the low-skilled drones that were reviewing media submissions from the labels and studios.
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