Mobileography

What’s with all of the blogs killing Apple about this latest iPhone bug? Granted, it’s certainly an embarrassing situation to have another bug on their hands, but is it that big of a deal?

For example, here are some of the headlines:

• Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private Information at Risk
• Major security hole found in iPhone
• iPhone 2.0.2 Security Flaw puts your info at risk
• iPhone 2.0.2 security flaw makes private data accessible

Wow, this must be a major bug! Is my data at risk!?! Yeah, probably not.

This bug allows people to bypass the passcode lock on the phone. That’s certainly a problem for some people, but how many people do you know that set the passcode on the phone and then leave it unattended very often? I personally know eight people with iPhones, and none of them use the passcode — they just keep the phone on their body.

In addition, there is a very simple workaround. If you set your “home button double-click preference” to either “Home” or “iPod” instead of the default “iPhone favorites”, the problem is fixed. Also, MacRumors has been told that this problem has already been fixed for a future firmware update.

I guess any story with “apple” and “security” in it must be major news, even when it’s not.

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Despite all of the buzz we’ve seen lately, including a hastily-assembled firmware update, it seems that that hardware in the iPhone 3G is pretty solid.

A Swedish company decided to find out, and took their iPhone to a test facility made for this kind of thing. They ran a variety of tests on the phone, as well as on a Sony Ericsson P1 and a Nokia N73. The testing confirms that they’re all about equal.

So what to make of it? It seems to me that we might be looking at some software issues, a fact that Apple essentially gave away when pushing out the 2.0.2 update. Hopefully their next update can continue to improve on it, since the hardware appears to be in good shape.

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Seemingly out of nowhere, Apple has released firmware version 2.0.2 for the iPhone. As with the last update, this one simply addresses “bug fixes”. It’s believed that this update addresses some of the 3G connectivity problems, but that hasn’t been confirmed.

If you find any noticeable differences, please let us know in the comments.

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