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Wireless version of iOS 1970 date bug has the potential to remotely brick hardware

Posted on April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

Two months back, iOS users were talking about a silly bug that was causing some big problems for users foolish enough to test it on their own hardware: by manually dialing back the iOS system date to 1970, users could effectively brick their devices. It was annoying, sure, but at least it wouldn’t happen by accident; it took a concerted effort to intentionally get the date that far back. And when Apple ultimately ...

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Siri and 3D Touch combine for this contacts- and photos-revealing iPhone lockscreen attack

Posted on April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

Smartphone security is all about balance, finding ways to deliver the functionality and convenience we desire while taking reasonable steps to keep our data secure: go too nuts with the security precautions and the phone becomes a pain to use (or maybe worse, only performs the most basic operations), but dial things back too far and you’ve got a wide-open phone that’s not doing enough to keep private information private. Apple’s long struggled with how to deliver the convenience of Siri voice control while still enforcing device security, and

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Yet another iOS 9.3 bug transpires, which Sprint is ‘working quickly to fix’

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Adrian Diaconescu

Apple’s “most stable” new software release “in years”? Please, iOS 9.3 has been riddled with the oddest bugs since day one, and while its first sub-point maintenance update managed to mend a few ...

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Apple’s on the bugfix prowl with new iOS 9.3.1 release

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Stephen Schenck

By some accounts, Apple’s iOS 9.3 release was one of its best-coded to date, giving users stable, reliable performance. And while that may be true for many users, it’s also been clear that this worry-free operation isn’t a universal occurrence, and we’ve seen a good number of reports detailing some pretty serious failures. First there were those multiple issues users were running ...

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