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Re: Spitballing IoT Security
From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 08:00:14 +1100
In message <56B9ABD3-6911-42CB-9C9D-81FB33CA55C3 () lboro ac uk>, Alan Buxey write s:
Hi,At which point the 3GS was almost 5 years old (having originally been released in June 2009) and had been already superseded by the iPhone 4, 4S, 5 and 5S/5C.But the release of and presence of those phones does not make the older phone suddenly stop working. As noted, the phone might be obsolete to those people hungering for the latest tech but as a phone and web client etc it still works fine. ....and will continue doing so whilst the battery is okay. ... and then, with no updates it can be the next attack vector Which is the point. These things stay out there...like those winXP boxes. There are 2 choices 1) manufacturers are responsible for the devices. No longer caring for them? Recall them. Compensate the users. 2) stronger obsolescence. eg kill switch/firmware tombstoning/network connectivity function ending timebomb as a user of lots of legacy tech i find either option bad :/ alan
Or Apple could release iOS 6.1.7. There is nothing stopping Apple doing so. Apple are the ones preventing people running iOS 10.x on the 3GS. This puts the responsibilty on them to supply security fixes. All of the PC's running XP could run a newer version of the Windows regardless of whether they could run the latest version. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka () isc org
Current thread:
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security, (continued)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Jean-Francois Mezei (Oct 26)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Brandon Butterworth (Oct 26)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 26)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Mark Andrews (Oct 26)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security bzs (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 26)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Mark Andrews (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Edward Dore (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Alan Buxey (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Mark Andrews (Oct 27)
- RE: Spitballing IoT Security Emille Blanc (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Edward Dore (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security -- Dancing around a solution Stephen Satchell (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Leo Bicknell (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Mark Andrews (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ca By (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Ronald F. Guilmette (Oct 27)
- Re: Spitballing IoT Security Jon Lewis (Oct 27)
- RE: Spitballing IoT Security Emille Blanc (Oct 27)