iPhone OS updated

#1

Post by 16g » Wed, Jun 23, 2010, 1:47 AM UTC

Re: iPhone OS updated

#2

Post by tptacek » Wed, Jun 23, 2010, 1:57 AM UTC

Wow. Epic misreporting. The iPad may be vulnerable to any number of the bugs fixed in iOS 4. The iPad will get iOS 4 in Fall. It does not follow from those two statements that the iPad will remain vulnerable until Fall.

Re: iPhone OS updated

#3

Post by revetkn » Wed, Jun 23, 2010, 2:41 AM UTC

Unlike iPhone/iTouch, iPad runs iOS 3.2, which I'm assuming includes some or all of the bugfixes that are part of 4.0. Of course this is pure speculation like the original article, though - if anyone has a detailed 3.2 and 4.0 changelist, please post it.

Re: iPhone OS updated

#4

Post by spoondan » Wed, Jun 23, 2010, 4:07 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #2

Wow. Epic misreporting. The iPad may be vulnerable to any number of the bugs fixed in iOS 4. The iPad will get iOS 4 in Fall. It does not follow from those two statements that the iPad will remain vulnerable until Fall.

The reporting isn't so bad. But the headline writing is atrocious.

Re: iPhone OS updated

#5

Post by henryw » Wed, Jun 23, 2010, 5:19 AM UTC

"Most of the patched vulnerabilities were in WebKit"

reading this makes me not want to use webkit, which includes google chrome. maybe i'll go back to firefox.

Re: iPhone OS updated

#6

Post by TeHCrAzY » Wed, Jun 23, 2010, 7:23 AM UTC

I hate how the page scrolls me down to the "sponsored links" section upon loading.

Re: iPhone OS updated

#7

Post by kevinelliott » Wed, Jun 23, 2010, 7:30 AM UTC

Would be nice if these holes, and subsequently articles pointing them out, caused Apple to release iOS4 early to iPad owners, rather than back porting the bug fixes. It's higly unlikely that it'll budge their schedule, but it would be a welcomed move!

Re: iPhone OS updated

#8

Post by DougBTX » Wed, Jun 23, 2010, 9:24 AM UTC

henryw wrote: post #5

"Most of the patched vulnerabilities were in WebKit" reading this makes me not want to use webkit, which includes google chrome. maybe i'll go back to firefox.

Chrome probably has the fastest update rate of current web browsers, their articles on updates using compressed binary diffs are worth a read: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software...