surely the next version of this software will be version 2.0

that will be available for the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G

and it's rumoured to be released in 6days 14hours 52minutes and 25seconds

or are you just writing this article now so that in almost a week's time you can feel smug that Apple obviously listened to you?

You can get the latest firmwares for almost any smartphone at service centres. Nokia now allow users to download new firmware and flash their phones from their PC at home. These all contain bugfixes and new features.

Paris flashes in public.

Alas, getting service centre updates can be nigh on impossible if the carrier hasn't approved/added their own branded junk to (delete as appl.) it. Try asking Orange N95 owners about that one. For once, I think that Apple have done the right thing with this - Perhaps slower than a desktop security update, but a hell of a lot quicker than any S60/WM6 update...hell, do we really know what flaws are on those platforms.

That's all obviously assuming this flaw IS corrected in the new v.2.0! ;)

But Apple SURE IS Good at creating them on everything from OS X, the iPhony to their own iApps. It's HISTORY and it's DOCUMENTED ... all you have to do is read any Apple Self-help site like macfixit and their archives.

Apple is 20 Times Worse than MS!

I thought the standard label was "JesusPhone"? Or has that become problematic since the second coming/ update?

Phreaky is still around, I was getting worried.

Oh ok, im bored...

But Microsoft SURE IS Good at creating them on everything from Windows, the WinMobile to their own Office apps. It's HISTORY and it's DOCUMENTED ... all you have to do is read any Microsoft Self-help site like google and their archives.

Microsoft is 20 Times Worse than Apple!

..but don't forget a couple of oh so minor steps prior to logging in as root...

- Turn on OpenSSH on the iPhone

- Oh, but then you would mean you have to have OpenSSH installed first

- dang! that would mean you need to install the BSD Subsystem beforehand

- ahhhh and that would require to have a community repository on the iPhone too such as installer.app

- ding! to install installer.app the iPhone would have to be jailbroken right?

I mean, unless I missed Apples iPhone 'Hacker Edition' shipping with all this enabled, I cannot see how actively going through the (reverse) steps above is a security issue.

Any IT person who has gone through the above steps and requires OpenSSH on at all times, would actively set their root password, while a dumbass blindly following someones ego-driven blog online would also follow the instruction (that most tutorials post) to *change your root password* if using this feature. Either that or they will brick the fucken thing and create the most secure phone ever, one that doesn't work.

Finally, given a couple of days leaving OpenSSH on 24/7, any sane person would turn it off when not in use as it burns through batteries like a flaming leper doused in kerosene.

Cheers

iTwats usually bleat about MicroShaft always having to release patches. So "The Jobbie" has to keep them happy by not releasing patches for his iCrappy software so often, maybe, for example, only when they release a brand new iPosingMirror. Well done for being security driven.

Paris, she knows how to drive securely.

When one of these actually causes some damage I might get interested. Frankly, having had Windows since 'MS-DOS Executive' I've NEVER been hit by anything on my Windows machines. I strongly doubt my sole OS X machine is going to be hit by these either, the sky is not falling : D

Webster Phreaky blatthered: Apple Doesn't Know How Too Patch Wholes and Bugs

That's because they know how TO patch HOLES and bugs. Come on Webster, To, Two and Too are second grade lessons! When you learn that then MAYBE you might be justified in ragging on Apple. : D

<http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-to-two-and-too.htm>

Chad, you can only SSH into an iPhone if you jailbreak it and install the ssh daemon. If you've done all that and not changed your password, you deserve what you get...

Actually, anyone, not just service personnel, can access Nokia firmware downloads. To check if there is a new firmware download fo rthe mentioned N95 then go to; http://www.nokia.co.uk/A4226014?N95_8GB.

But, to be honest, all Nokias I have used have had such a rubbish, over-compicated, menu-driven interface I would think anyone determined enough to hack it to have uber qualities of perseverence.

Windoze device users such as the many badged HTC devices, iPaqs and Axims, have the "pleasure" of multiple Windoze updates right from the earliest Windows CE (very aptly nicknamed "WinCE"). This is one reason that Windows Mobile devices are assessed at higher business security rating than the iBone.

Of course, business users (which are the people that actually need and value security) have had a fully-tested and automated solution that can automatically push out updates as required from long before the appearance of the iBone or Windoze Mobile, and carries the top business security rating. Please put your hands together for the business market leader (yes, that's the market that Jobs wants to get into), RIM's Blackberrys with Blackberry Enterprise Server.

See, the BEST the AppleTards can do is criticize a slip of the keyboard entry like the little juvenile punks they are, INSTEAD of offering any substance in a rebuttal. Reason being, THEY CAN'T!

Apple HAS BEEN branded by security experts and even some of their slightly brave whore media, as being TOO slow at patching; far worse than MS. That's Microsoft, not the Multiple Sclerosis you Apple Tards exhibit every time you open your saliva dripping pie holes. Of course you high and mighty never make a typo, do you perfect wonders of fantasy land?