iOS problems have now all been totally fixed
The beginning of this week also marked the release of Apple’s iOS 4.0.2, an eagerly anticipated update that dealt with a security vulnerability in the previous versions that allowed third parties to meddle with the settings on any Apple iPad or iPhone particularly the antics of the infamous JailbreakMe.com. The security update was a major step towards fixing a problem that would have given workers at Apple nightmares however for some strange reason Apple did not even think about including the series of original iPhones or for that matter even the first generation of iPod Touch as a part of this update.
The omission is not as trivial as it may look like for the iOS 4 shortcoming allows an execution of an arbitrary code when user opens any PDF file unsuspectingly or even visits any malicious website. Now that the flaw in the security code has been fully exposed, it may well eventually spread to several malignant entities beyond the severely benign website JailbreakMe.com. Thus users of Apple’s earliest mobile technology, which is presumably still used by fairly large number of people, remain continually vulnerable to any threat and a strongly growing risk of attack.
The good news is that the iPhone4 community has its own development team who have managed to push out a separate patch that deals with this problem. The PDF Patch fixes this security loophole in all the iPod and iPhone models. The added adavantage to this patch is that it will work with all the current iPods and iPhones. If you own a current generation device from Apple and haven’t applied for the newly released update, you may ignore it and simply apply the ingenious patch instead. In the end Apple’s refusal to including the older generation devices in this update has been a blessing in disguise for those who did not wish to update their OS to deal with the security hole.
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