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Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined

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On 3/27/13 2:38 PM, in article hg5c2a-mt8.ln1@sky.matrix, "Homer"
<usenet@slated.org> wrote:

> Verily I say unto thee that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
>> 
>>    
>> http://www.phonearena.com/news/iPhone-more-vulnerable-than-Android-BB-and-WP-
>> combined_id41258
>> 
>> Also noted:
>> 
>>    Of course, he doesn't mention that only 0.5% of malware comes
>>    through the Google Play Store, so criminals still have to find ways
>>    to get Android users to sideload infected apps. It is still very
>>    possible that Android simply has fewer vulnerabilities because it
>>    is open-source (which tends to be more secure), and the only real
>>    serious vulnerability with Android is that users are allowed to
>>    screw things up if they aren't careful.
> 
> The only serious vulnerability with Android, or any other Free Software,
> is the proprietary software that people persist in infecting it with.
> 
> Blaming Free Software for this problem is like sleeping with a whore,
> complaining about contracting a disease, then blaming the wife.

Who cares who or what is to blame? What matters is the *reality* of what is
safe and what is not. Windows and Android users are are significant risk. OS
X, iOS, and desktop Linux users are not.

-- 
"Linux desktop is why I got into Linux in the first place. I mean, I
have never, ever cared about really anything but the Linux desktop."
-- Linus Torvalds

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iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2013-03-27 15:53 -0400
  Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-03-27 13:15 -0700
    Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2013-04-02 09:09 +0100
      Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2013-04-02 09:45 +0100
        Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2013-04-02 08:47 +0000
  Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2013-03-27 21:38 +0000
    Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-03-27 15:11 -0700
    Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-03-28 00:49 +0000
      Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-03-27 17:55 -0700
      Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2013-03-27 22:54 -0400
        Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2013-03-28 09:27 +0000
        Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-28 08:42 -0400
      Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2013-03-28 09:10 -0400
        Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-28 09:35 -0400
      Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-03-28 15:07 -0500
  Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2013-03-27 15:49 -0700
  Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2013-03-28 01:03 +0000
    Re: iPhone more vulnerable than Android, BB, and WP combined flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-28 08:41 -0400

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