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How to protect apple products
Posted on 8/18/22 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 8/18/22 at 9:03 pm
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Posted on 8/18/22 at 9:44 pm to SlidellCajun
Everything is under attack, always.
quote:Says in the article you linked to update your software.
How do we protect our devices?
Posted on 8/19/22 at 5:32 am to Korkstand
Posted on 8/19/22 at 6:00 am to SlidellCajun
Don't buy them.
Seriously I'd just update as soon as possible.
Seriously I'd just update as soon as possible.
Posted on 8/19/22 at 7:49 am to SlidellCajun
The reaction to this news is genuinely amusing me.
The only reason this is being broadcast out is because Apple, as a rule, doesn't force updates on users (outside of older devices eventually hitting EOL, but that's a separate issue). So Apple is having to ask its users to update. Unlike every other ecosystem would simply pushes the update whether you like it or not.
While I have an iPhone, it's literally my only Apple device, and I'm by no measure a fan boy. But the reaction by Android users as though they don't have major security patches for their phones sent on the regular is fricking hilarious to me
The only reason this is being broadcast out is because Apple, as a rule, doesn't force updates on users (outside of older devices eventually hitting EOL, but that's a separate issue). So Apple is having to ask its users to update. Unlike every other ecosystem would simply pushes the update whether you like it or not.
While I have an iPhone, it's literally my only Apple device, and I'm by no measure a fan boy. But the reaction by Android users as though they don't have major security patches for their phones sent on the regular is fricking hilarious to me
Posted on 8/19/22 at 8:17 am to SlidellCajun
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How do we protect our devices?
The safest way to use any product is to disable all network connections.
Unfortunately, it sort of renders the device useless for its intended purpose.
So update your software. Those little red numbers on the “settings” apps are pretty important.
Posted on 8/19/22 at 10:09 am to SlidellCajun
Just tried to update min and I got an error message 
Posted on 8/19/22 at 1:41 pm to Joshjrn
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While I have an iPhone, it's literally my only Apple device, and I'm by no measure a fan boy. But the reaction by Android users as though they don't have major security patches for their phones sent on the regular is fricking hilarious to me
Well you are probably right to laugh at the hardcore fanboys. Thing is I run open source Android. It is open to scrutiny by anyone who desires. Apple's walled garden means their exploits could be undiscovered or hidden for a while before being made public, if ever.
Posted on 8/19/22 at 5:29 pm to wheelr
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Well you are probably right to laugh at the hardcore fanboys. Thing is I run open source Android. It is open to scrutiny by anyone who desires. Apple's walled garden means their exploits could be undiscovered or hidden for a while before being made public, if ever.
You're right that the source makes things more transparent and open to scrutiny. That doesn't always necessarily translate to patches being written upstream and distributed downstream before exploitation, though. This especially applies to Android with its highly fragmented ecosystem. For the past year or so I've run GrapheneOS (a security hardened Android distribution with extensive sandboxing) and lurked their Matrix chat room full of security nerds engaging in all the aforementioned scrutiny, and the number of exploits that are discovered and widely known yet unpatched for large numbers of Android devices is quite appalling. The mainstream vendors are frequently behind on patches and most of the community Android distributions are punching holes in the security model of the OS to facilitate their own feature sets. The hardcore security paranoid types will actually recommend iOS over any general Android version for anyone who can't flash hardened GrapheneOS.
Posted on 8/19/22 at 5:48 pm to efrad
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This post was edited on 4/30/23 at 1:17 am
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