One source of potential security risk that wont be on the iPhone is Exchange. Dulaney said that Apple told him the iPhone will support Outlook but not the Exchange server. The only e-mail Apple plans to support on the smart phone is ISP e-mail—a fairly rudimentary version of e-mail.
The iPhone also wont support pushed e-mail; Sync, the "old-fashioned way of doing things," will basically be the only way to download e-mail, Dulaney said.
At any rate, Apple is annoying some analysts with its lack of security details.
"They really have said absolutely nothing," Dulaney said. "The way theyve been with everybody borders on arrogance. They should tell people what theyre getting into."
As far as what Apple is saying, Dulaney said he has trouble believing the companys claims about the smart phone, including battery life claims.
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"Apple [is claiming] almost a 2x ratio of standby to talk time of other devices," he said. "Which says to me, if you have given the same amount of capacity on the network with the same battery capacity, [various smart phones battery lives] should be the same, which Nokias and BlackBerrys basically are. Apples never made a phone before. Do they have a nuclear generator in there? They could have filled every nook and cranny with liquid polymer stuff, but its hard to tell."
And then again, theres the option of not caring about iPhone security. Security firm Matasanos Dave Goldsmith wrote in the company blog—in its headline, actually—that "Matasano Does Not Care About iPhone Security."
"If you are responsible for keeping data inside of your organization, for the love of everything that is holy, please dont spend too much time on the iPhone," Goldsmith said.
The rationale:
"Allow us to remind you about all of the data breaches that are happening thanks to insecure wireless access points, tape backups disappearing, wrapping your newspapers in customers personal financial information, and stolen laptops.
"Will the iPhone compound this problem? Slightly.
"Will researchers attack the iPhone? You bet.
"Will attackers spend a lot of time trying to steal data off of an iPhone? I doubt it.
"Will someone run Linux on the iPhone? Sadly, yes.
The person that spends 500$ on their phone will protect it more than the laptop you issued them."
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