iPhone 3Gs and smudges

[mik3cap]

Looks like fingerprint smudging on iPhones was enough of a problem that Apple actually created a fingerprint resistant coating on the iPhone 3Gs. I wonder if they got requests from government and security people for that as well?

Comments

[l0qii.livejournal.com]

Most of the govt type people I know can't even own iPhones because they aren't allowed to bring cameras in to work.

[kaetaur13.livejournal.com]

I heard something similiar where people bought low tech phones just so they could have them in the office for child emergencies.

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Ah, but now there is remote wiping, and I swear I heard the words "hardware encryption" during the keynote...

[neuromancerzss.livejournal.com]

The problem isn't that pictures could be stolen from your phone, it's that you could take pictures and sell them.

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Yes, but a paranoid employed can wipe your phone every time you exit the building and have you restore it from a secure location...

[neuromancerzss.livejournal.com]

And prevent cell phone calls and file transfer so you don't just transfer them elsewhere? At that point what does the phone actually do?

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Internal applications that are distributed ad hoc within the organization? Like managing inventory. Or performing some other kind of productivity tasks.

iPhone isn't a phone. It's a mobile computing platform with a phone attached to it.

[neuromancerzss.livejournal.com]

The already have mobile computing platforms with neither a phone nor a camera attached. Those things are drawback for this function. Hell, if you really want to stay in-brand for some reason an iPod Touch is basically an iPhone without the phone or camera.

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

True, but the ease of use of the iPhone/iPod interface and the extremely rapid development cycles for iPhoneOS applications are compelling reasons to use the platform. I imagine remote wiping will also work fine with iPod touch over WiFi... I'm sure there's a way to do that too.