{"id":1467,"date":"2010-01-20T20:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T19:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2010-01-20T20:12:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T19:12:25","slug":"a-reason-to-not-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"A reason to NOT iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for the first mass exploitation virus for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\">iPhone<\/a> to arrive. With the iPhone ecosystem reaching critical mass, there can&#8217;t be much left in the way of roadblocks to prevent this. There has already been exploits that targeted &#8216;jail broken&#8217;  iPhones, <i>more likely to have been created by Apple, or a fan of Apple DRM<\/i>. Therefore the likelihood that a more potent virus will emerge is very high. The likely suspect, is one that exploits the &#8216;closed&#8217; nature of the device, where the victim iPhone will show no indication of an infection. <\/p>\n<p>Not that my chosen device is not subject to the same attacks, the <a href=\"http:\/\/maemo.nokia.com\/n900\/\">Nokia N900<\/a> is also a target, but its just not as big a target as the iPhone. More or less the same argument that has been used to justify the lack of viruses on the Mac platform. I have a Mac also, and I feel safe, but not because it&#8217;s immune to viruses, it HAS been less targeted, and it has been ACTIVELY defended. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for the first mass exploitation virus for the iPhone to arrive. With the iPhone ecosystem reaching critical mass, there can&#8217;t be much left in the way of roadblocks to prevent this. There has already been exploits that targeted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1467\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A reason to NOT iPhone<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,47,82,7,75,296,52,281,80],"tags":[691,292,329,158],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-crime","category-drm","category-internet","category-iphone","category-maemo","category-monopolies","category-n900","category-nokia","tag-drm","tag-nokia-n900","tag-security","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}