On 25/04/15 20:12, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
> Microsoft Windows is flaky round the edges; hence viruses. Apple is
> bound round with steel; hence next to no viruses, and extremely
> difficult to "talk to" from anywhere else.
In all fairness to both sides there, the deep kernel revisions in
recent Windows versions have greatly improved security there. The UI
is another story, but I find Nadella interesting and so for now it's
hard to tell where it'll go but seems likely to be radically improved
over the next year or two.
And as for Apple, there's a reason Ahrendts is apparently being
groomed as Schiller's replacement: Schiller seems to have run out of
positive things to say about Apple's platforms in recent years,
focusing instead on perceived security risks with competing OSes. But
as this brief sampling of news findable in this morning's Google News,
no OS is ever without risk and it can be dangerously counterproductive
to mislead one's users into believing they don't need to be mindful of
security:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/22/technology/mac-security-flaw/
http://bgr.com/2015/04/22/os-x-yosemite-rootpipe-security-vulnerability/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-os-x-security-features-easily-bypassed-says-researcher/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/22/apple_no_ios_zone_bug/
It may be safe to say iOS has fewer *potential* exposures than
Android, but that number is far from zero and despite the number of
*attempts* that keep getting headlines the actual number of affected
Android devices is very small and almost exclusively limited to users
who alter the default protections provided by the system to download
apps from strange unknown sources - the same sorts of things that tend
to affect iOS users, often requiring jailbreaking.
With its seven layers of security that extend back to 2.3, Android as
ships is not much more dangerous than iOS, and far more secure than
any Mac, but if you're trying to pay the bills at a news site you're
less likely to garner ad impressions with "Billions of People Used
Their Phones Without Incident Today" than "OMG the Sky is Falling!",
so the press tends to focus on attempts alone and generally completely
overlooks the small number of devices actually affected. We do,
after all, sometimes see disproportionate press for iOS security
exposures as well, and only when you read down into the details of the
article do you find that, like most Android exploits, you need to
alter something in the OS to become vulnerable.
With a 75/25% market share split between Android and iOS it's accurate
to say there are fewer compromised iOS devices, but not zero. Just
ask any celebrity trying to keep their pics private. :)
> Of course . . . one could develop LiveCode standalones for iOS to be
> loaded through Cydia on Jail-broken iPhones and iPads, and
> one wouldn't have to "share one's spit" with Apple . . . but I guess
> that that is just too wild for most would-be iOS developers: don't
> know why.
Most developers go where the audience is. Both Android and iOS are
much safer to use when not jailbroken, so most folks leave 'em alone
and enjoy a reasonably safe experience.
I've always found a "safe experience" tends also to be a boring one, so
I always try to stretch whatever equipment
I can lay my hands on as far as I can, but then I'm not "most folks",
and very glad that I'm not!
Richmond.
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