Apple products don’t get malware infections and users need not worry about their data falling into evil hands, the Apple Army tells me. But security experts say Apple products are superior to all the rest from a security standpoint. An epidemic of “jailbreaking” is disabling critical security controls on the device. The FBI is investigating the case where hackers obtained e-mail addresses of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad users by uncovering a Web application on AT&T’s Web site that returned an iPad user’s address when it was sent specially written queries.”]
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