Apple releases update to iOS 6.0

[AggieMike88]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-5...ases-ios-6.0.1-with-over-the-air-update-tool/



Here's the full change log:

• Fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air
• Fixes a bug where horizontal lines may be displayed across the keyboard
• Fixes an issue that could cause camera flash to not go off
• Improves reliability of iPhone 5 and iPod Touch (5th generation) when connected to encrypted WPA2 Wi-Fi networks
• Resolves an issue that prevents iPhone from using the cellular network in some instances
• Consolidated the Use Cellular Data switch for iTunes Match
• Fixes a Passcode Lock bug that sometimes allowed access to Passbook pass details from lock screen
• Fixes a bug affecting Exchange meetings

 

[denverpilot]

Oops I just started another thread. D'oh!

 

[wsuffa]

Wonder how long it will be before work permits me to update the work iPhone. It took a month to get the OK to move to iOS 6 in the first place. And I am haveing a few of these problems, especially unreliable operation on WPA2 networks (which I had been blaming on Mobileiron & the Notes server because we ALL know that Apple wouldn't turn out a buggy product...)

 

[AggieMike88]

Fortunately he upgrade is easy "over the air". Just go to Settings >> General. >> Software Update

 

[wsuffa]

Fortunately he upgrade is easy "over the air". Just go to Settings >> General. >> Software Update

Except that the company phone is centrally managed & limits what we can access....

 

[denverpilot]

Except that the company phone is centrally managed & limits what we can access....

Exactly why I never do company phones. I usually get screwed on the wimpy reimbursed amounts (I get a whopping $27.50 after taxes per month for my cellular business use) but I know IT departments (mine included) are deluded enough to think that they can truly control mobile tech. And there's auditing companies that they answer to who are also similarly deluded.

Unless you're carrying one of the fancy DoD Crackberries or cell phones with the nifty encryption tech, company control of mobile devices is, and yes I truly mean to use this word, retarded behavior.

Don't say that around your "Security" folks though, or they'll get insulted and maybe even reach for a taser to shut you up. Haha.

 

[wsuffa]

Exactly why I never do company phones. I usually get screwed on the wimpy reimbursed amounts (I get a whopping $27.50 after taxes per month for my cellular business use) but I know IT departments (mine included) are deluded enough to think that they can truly control mobile tech. And there's auditing companies that they answer to who are also similarly deluded.

No choice. Company phone required. Not going into the "why" here.

Unless you're carrying one of the fancy DoD Crackberries or cell phones with the nifty encryption tech, company control of mobile devices is, and yes I truly mean to use this word, retarded behavior.

Don't say that around your "Security" folks though, or they'll get insulted and maybe even reach for a taser to shut you up. Haha.

 

[denverpilot]

No choice. Company phone required. Not going into the "why" here.

I totally understand. They pay, they get to dork with it, is all I was sayin'. And most places do.

They think it makes the devices secure.

 

[wsuffa]

I totally understand. They pay, they get to dork with it, is all I was sayin'. And most places do.

They think it makes the devices secure.

More to it than that in this case.

That said, we are also restricted (by policy) to NOT discuss any company confidential matters on any wireless (or VoIP) device. Try enforcing that....

 

[John221us]

More to it than that in this case.

That said, we are also restricted (by policy) to NOT discuss any company confidential matters on any wireless (or VoIP) device. Try enforcing that....

You do realize that all the tier 1 backbones are back hauled to packetized voice (VoIP), so virtually any PSTN call you make is VoIP now days.

 

[wsuffa]

You do realize that all the tier 1 backbones are back hauled to packetized voice (VoIP), so virtually any PSTN call you make is VoIP now days.

Yes. I also realize that the entire corporate phone system(s) is based on packetized voice. And that there are microwave links involved. And.. and... and...

Dilbert lives.

 

[denverpilot]

More to it than that in this case.

That said, we are also restricted (by policy) to NOT discuss any company confidential matters on any wireless (or VoIP) device. Try enforcing that....

I've always been surprised that there aren't a significant number of crypto-enabled phones on the market already. Probably some folks who like to listen in illegally to things who wouldn't appreciate that, and plenty of political pressure on carriers not to offer it.

 

[wsuffa]

I've always been surprised that there aren't a significant number of crypto-enabled phones on the market already. Probably some folks who like to listen in illegally to things who wouldn't appreciate that, and plenty of political pressure on carriers not to offer it.

Politics is a non-issue. The Federal agencies get to tap in the CO or elsewhere along the line where things are decoded. A key reason that Verizon installed a modified version of Skype on their phones (set it up so that using Skype only used Skype on wifi but sent calls OTA if you were on the Verizon system) was to allow compliance with CALEA. Skype was capable of end-end encryption, that may well change under Microsoft ownership.

 

[denverpilot]

Politics is a non-issue. The Federal agencies get to tap in the CO or elsewhere along the line where things are decoded. A key reason that Verizon installed a modified version of Skype on their phones (set it up so that using Skype only used Skype on wifi but sent calls OTA if you were on the Verizon system) was to allow compliance with CALEA. Skype was capable of end-end encryption, that may well change under Microsoft ownership.

Yeah, I know. There's little out there that isn't "home brew" that has true end-to-end encryption. CALEA made sure of it.

Feds have been struggling to keep the lid on Pandora's Box ever since Mr. Phillip Zimmerman let the cat out of the bag -- to the unwashed unworthy-of-strong-cryptography masses.

Anyone younger than me doesn't remember a day when they couldn't get access to strong crypto if they wanted it.

And of course, that's for varying definitions of "strong"...

There's a brand new multibillion dollar data center in Utah to augment a number of others, already full to overflowing with commodity computers stuffed chock full of video processors... They make for such nice parallel processors, in large quantity, for a lot cheaper than custom ASICs.

 

[cowman]

To the guy with the company iphone: I'd put a little piece of black tape over the cameras 'just in case'. You never know what software they put on it... and maybe keep the phone away if you're involved in any situation where you wouldn't want them to hear what's going on.

Probably paranoid, but there was a case just a while back where a school was giving out a new macbook to it's students. What they didn't tell anyone was they had security software running on them that allowed the IT staff at the school to TURN ON THE CAMERAS AND MICROPHONES WITHOUT THE STUDENT'S KNOWLEDGE!!

And they were doing it too! They actually had the gall to give a kid a detention over something they saw while watching him at home! Talk about creepy!

Fortunately, after that parents found out and the school got sued and stopped that behavior and one would hope that would serve as a warning to anyone else who thought such hidden software was acceptable but you never know.

Just put some tape over the camera. :wink2:

 

[AggieMike88]

To the guy with the company iphone: I'd put a little piece of black tape over the cameras 'just in case'. You never know what software they put on it... and maybe keep the phone away if you're involved in any situation where you wouldn't want them to hear what's going on.

Probably paranoid, but there was a case just a while back where a school was giving out a new macbook to it's students. What they didn't tell anyone was they had security software running on them that allowed the IT staff at the school to TURN ON THE CAMERAS AND MICROPHONES WITHOUT THE STUDENT'S KNOWLEDGE!!

And they were doing it too! They actually had the gall to give a kid a detention over something they saw while watching him at home! Talk about creepy!

Fortunately, after that parents found out and the school got sued and stopped that behavior and one would hope that would serve as a warning to anyone else who thought such hidden software was acceptable but you never know.

Just put some tape over the camera. :wink2:

 

[cowman]

Here's the story:
http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/school-district-admi.html

 

[denverpilot]

The school laptop camera thing was the Robbins versus Lower Merion School District case. Goes back a number of years.

Settled two years ago for over $600K of which over $400K went to the attorneys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District

It's fairly old news at this point for anyone paying attention to privacy cases involving the government.

We are the Land of Executive Orders tearing away at the 4th Amendment to our Constitution at this point, and the laughingstock of the world when we claim that we are a Free Country.

Neither Party is interested in privacy for Citizens as a plank in their platforms. Far too much "security contractor" money at stake in all the individual politician's districts. Good gub'mint jobs.

Heck, we even export those good gub'mint jobs. Ask anyone working at Alice Springs if they get paid well.

They have to pay well in 'Security' jobs, otherwise the individuals are open to bribery, which is by far the most common way, these days, to turn a spook. James Bond makes it look glamorous. It's not. Pay off the house and buy the kids braces...

 

[cowman]

I agree with you completely. That's why I refuse to vote for the Rs or the Ds anymore... not that it's doing much good but it makes me feel better.

 

[JGoodish]

I agree with you completely. That's why I refuse to vote for the Rs or the Ds anymore... not that it's doing much good but it makes me feel better.

Corruption is not something unique to politicians, nor has politics or any other profession ever been free from it.

Voting for someone other than a R or D is, in most cases, throwing your vote away. It also usually means a better chance of the LEAST desired major party candidate winning the election. The reality is that we have a two party system, and voting for the "other" guy sends exactly no message to either of the major parties. The best chance to influence the party and the candidate selection is through the major party primary process.

By not voting, you're both forfeiting your civil right AND your legitimate voice in choosing the candidate who will cause the least amount of damage while in office. I can't say that I understand the logic in that decision.


JKG

 

[Jim Logajan]

Corruption is not something unique to politicians, nor has politics or any other profession ever been free from it.

Voting for someone other than a R or D is, in most cases, throwing your vote away. It also usually means a better chance of the LEAST desired major party candidate winning the election. The reality is that we have a two party system, and voting for the "other" guy sends exactly no message to either of the major parties. The best chance to influence the party and the candidate selection is through the major party primary process.

By not voting, you're both forfeiting your civil right AND your legitimate voice in choosing the candidate who will cause the least amount of damage while in office. I can't say that I understand the logic in that decision.


JKG

Read up on the history of the Whigs.

In the mean time, please take your dubious reasoning to the Spin Zone. I am libertarian. Neither of the two major parties is libertarian. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by my voting for either party. I have voted for Libertarian party candidates for years.

"Least desired major party candidate winning" is self-referential and historical nonsense. It is contradicted by the emergence of the Republican and Whig parties. Had your reasoning been accepted over the years, we'd all still be choosing between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans.

 

[comanchepilot]

My 'over the air upgrade' bricked my phone insofar as text and email was concerned. No new texts or emails were retrieved or displayed.

However, turning the phone off and rebooting it fixed the problem. Same problem existed for my iPad as well after the OTA upgrade.

 

[denverpilot]

My 'over the air upgrade' bricked my phone insofar as text and email was concerned. No new texts or emails were retrieved or displayed.

However, turning the phone off and rebooting it fixed the problem. Same problem existed for my iPad as well after the OTA upgrade.

I haven't found OTA to be as reliable as plugging them in. Only four data points so far, but one out of two OTA's went sideways.

Nothing that plugging it in wouldn't fix, but easier just to hook it to iTunes. Need a backup prior to starting anyway.

 

[wsuffa]

To the guy with the company iphone: I'd put a little piece of black tape over the cameras 'just in case'. You never know what software they put on it... and maybe keep the phone away if you're involved in any situation where you wouldn't want them to hear what's going on.

Probably paranoid, but there was a case just a while back where a school was giving out a new macbook to it's students. What they didn't tell anyone was they had security software running on them that allowed the IT staff at the school to TURN ON THE CAMERAS AND MICROPHONES WITHOUT THE STUDENT'S KNOWLEDGE!!

And they were doing it too! They actually had the gall to give a kid a detention over something they saw while watching him at home! Talk about creepy!

Fortunately, after that parents found out and the school got sued and stopped that behavior and one would hope that would serve as a warning to anyone else who thought such hidden software was acceptable but you never know.

Just put some tape over the camera. :wink2:

Yes, that's always a risk - and it's a risk whether or not you have a company phone. For example, there is some "discussion" that Huawei & ZTE telecom equipment (both mobile phones and main switching gear) contains back doors and other technology that allows all traffic to be sampled & sent back to a mother ship. The concern is that this may be fed directly to the Chinese government.

Likewise, if you travel to certain countries, there's a high possiblity that something will be installed (with or without government support) in your phone OTA that will compromise it. Always better to take a loaner/travel phone.

The drawback to the iPhone is that one cannot remove the battery, unlike the BB. When you remove the battery, the risk goes down materially. Can't do that with the iPhone, and you really never know whether something is running in the background. The old rule was that one should remove the phone battery when having critical business discussions - it's now a rule of "don't bring it in the room". There are many corporate and government facilities within which electronic devices are banned.

 

[JGoodish]

Read up on the history of the Whigs.

In the mean time, please take your dubious reasoning to the Spin Zone. I am libertarian. Neither of the two major parties is libertarian. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by my voting for either party. I have voted for Libertarian party candidates for years.

"Least desired major party candidate winning" is self-referential and historical nonsense. It is contradicted by the emergence of the Republican and Whig parties. Had your reasoning been accepted over the years, we'd all still be choosing between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans.

I'm glad to see that your approach has resulted in substantial Libertarian influence in politics and policy. Oh, wait...

If you vote for a person (or party) who isn't going to win a general election, it is impossible to make a rational argument that your vote is influencing much of anything toward your cause. That's not spin, it's reality. I don't particularly care for either of the two major parties, but not voting for one of their candidates in a general election almost always results in a practical forfeiture of your vote, and likely results in public policy that is opposite of that which you ultimately favor. Seems pretty illogical to me.


JKG