The Macalope Weekly: Running amok

09.07.2011

Some of the items on the list have some merit (the Nokia hardware is terrific), but eWeek needs to get off this top-ten list thing. Particularly when there aren't ten items that make a lick of sense.

Did you hear the one about that then lets you install a patch that fixes the bug? Phew. All this story needs is a traveling salesman and a farmer's daughter.

Yes, a zero-day PDF bug in iOS allows you to jailbreak your phone and the jailbreak community already has a patch for the bug that you can apply after the jailbreak. It's a real stretch, though, to Adrian Kingsley-Hughes's contention that .

OK, Adrian, there's a clause missing from your title. Because jailbreaking can make your iPhone device more secure . In the current instance that has Adrian suggesting his readers jailbreak their iPhones for the security, a zero-day PDF bug that can be executed through the browser.