“Bernd and fellow security guru Jim Herbeck have discovered that plugging even a fully up-to-date, non-jailbroken iPhone 3GS into a computer running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx allows nearly full read access to the phone’s storage — even when it’s locked. The belief is that they’re just a buffer overflow away from full write access as well, which would surely open the door to making calls. Bernd believes the iPhone’s lack of data encryption for content is a real problem, and also cites the inability to digitally sign e-mails as reasons why the iPhone is still not ready for prime time in the enterprise.”

If you work in a highly regulated industry and think allowing your executives to use an iPhone instead of a Windows Mobile or RIM device is a fine idea, you may want to look at this article and others like it that point out that while an excellent device, the iPhone lacks basic security. Heck, iPhones blatantly lied to exchange servers for years about encryption capabilities, much to the chagrin of Exchange System Administrators. Apple succeeds at a lot of things, but iPhone security is not one of them!

This was originally posted at Windows Phone Thoughts, check out the the source for discussion.

“T-Mobile apparently has a trade-in program that may help those who can’t decide what to do with that old iPhone. From April 1 through May 19, you can trade in an iPhone for up to $350 credit towards a new HTC HD2. Participating T-Mobile dealers will be authorized to give a minimum of $100 credit (max $350) to those trading in their iPhones. The iPhone must be functional and in working condition; screen not broken, damaged or leaking; and no liquid damage or corrosion present. According to the details, activation is not required with the credit being applied to the fully priced HD2.”

If you’re looking to ditch an old and dusty iPhone for some HD2 goodness at T-mobile (assuming they have some HD2s in stock), you’re in luck – the Trade-in program is live!

This was originally posted at Windows Phone Thoughts, check out the the source for discussion.

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“There’s no denying that Windows Phone 7 (or Windows Phone 7 Series, or whatever awful branding was chosen) looks to be a huge improvement from the previous iterations of Windows Mobile. And there’s even some talk that it may be able to compete with the current golden boy of the smartphone industry, Apple’s iPhone. If an early look at the new Foursquare app for Windows Phone 7 is any indication, it just may.”

Habitual Foursquare’ers (Which Jason believes I am, despite the fact that I keep it to my self since my check-ins aren’t exactly all that interesting) will like the new Windows Phone 7 foursquare app, which is a nice improvement over the 6.5 version now. Another reason to be psyched about WP7S!

This was originally posted at Windows Phone Thoughts, check out the the source for discussion.

“AT&T* and HTC Corporation, a global designer of mobile phones, today announced the upcoming availability of the HTC TiltTM 2 and the HTC PURETM with Windows® Mobile 6.5. The HTC PURE delivers a touch screen experience in an alluring, compact form factor, and the HTC Tilt 2 features the convenience of a tilting touch screen combined with the practicality of a slide out full QWERTY keyboard.”

Ah, AT&T is announcing two great Windows Phone offerings, the Pure (The HTC Touch Diamond 2) and the Tilt 2 (The HTC Touch Pro 2). Who knows what’s pure about a Touch Diamond, or why we didn’t see a crazy new name similar to “Fuze” (Perhaps the “Cerket Braker” or “Swich”), and I’m sure these two new offerings won’t help AT&T’s abysmal coverage issues (Hey, you’ll love the 70% of calls you don’t drop in NYC, right?)!

This was originally posted at Pocket PC Thoughts, check out the the source for discussion.