Mac OS Ken: 08.04.2010

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2010

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

CNET Says iOS4 Jailbreak Points to Potential Security Issue in the OS / Forrester Says Current iPhone and iPad Operating Systems Secure Enough for Most Big Businesses / iPhone 4 Gets Approval for Sale in South Korea (After Five Day Wait) / Apple Seeds Third Beta of iOS 4.1 to Developers / AppleInsider Sees Evidence of Camera for Next Version of iPad / Engadget Finds a Flaw in AppleInsider Evidence of Camera for iPad (Though They Too Think the Next iPad Will Have a Camera) / News Corp CEO Sings Praises of Tablets for News / First iPad Issue of Glamour Hits the App Store / Future of Cloud-based Music Service from Apple Gets Cloudier / RIM Tries at iPhone Space with BlackBerry Torch 9800 / CNET Looks at How and Why the BlackBerry Torch 9800 Became and A T and T Exclusive / Posterous CEO Gives Sneak Peek into Inner Workings of Apple / Some T-Life Stores Reportedly Gouging iPhone 4 Buyers / Join Mac OS Ken: Live - Live Every Wednesday Night 10PM Eastern/7PM Pacific on UStream.tv

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSCE.
0:05.0	This is Mac OSCE.
0:07.0	The I. This is MacO-S-Kowas.
0:19.0	The IOS jailbreak leads to security concerns, tablet talk abounds, and the new BlackBerry makes my head hurt.
0:22.0	It's Wednesday, August 4, 2010.
0:25.0	I'm Kan Ray, and this is news from MacoS.
0:29.0	Can.
0:30.0	Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you, subscribers to brought to your
0:33.2	your yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to Maco can day six
0:37.0	more information is available at macoescan dot com
0:40.9	the show is also supported by the maco Escan Podcast app for the iPhone and iPod touch,
0:46.3	recently updated, and available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:52.0	It's iOS 4 compatible. For many worries over security for iPhone
0:57.8	come after jailbreaks not because of them and yet a C net-Net piece as the current IOS
1:03.4	jailbreak offered at jailbreakme.com points to a sizable security risk in
1:08.0	Apple's mobile operating system. According to the piece the fact that the bypass can
1:12.4	be performed through mobile Mobile Safari without having the iOS device hooked up to a computer,
1:17.4	and the way the bypass is accomplished indicate to some that just about anyone could control anyone else's iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
1:27.0	Quoting the report, a site can present the exploit as a simple PDF link, which requires no explicit user action short of clicking a link.
1:35.2	It can then launch an exploit that takes advantage of the way the PDF viewer loads fonts.
1:40.0	The end result is that the program can then have unrestricted access to your iPhone or iPad or iPod touch on virtually all versions of iPhone firmware short of the iOS 4.1 beta currently in the hands of developers for testing.
1:56.0	To this story, Apple did respond, saying simply that the company is aware of the reports and is investigating.
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