iPad Umm...we can't really use our iPads for the next week and a half?

[thadoggfather]

This happened with iOS 4, it came out in June for phones/iPods, but did not come out until November for iPads.

Oh yeah I remember that one. Not since then though am I correct, until now ?

 

[seezar]

The bad guys have had the code for months.

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They are though, as the bad guys have been at work reverse engineering the code for hours now. And that's assuming there were no zero days. The first exploits show up in days or hours now.

You do realize that one can't derive the source code of something from a compiled build, correct?

 

[retta283]

Oh yeah I remember that one. Not since then though am I correct, until now ?

I'm pretty sure that was the only time it happened. There have been updates that are iPad or iPhone exclusive, but they were bug fixes, and not feature releases.

 

[RevTEG]

Sooooooo, iOS 13 has security updates, but the iPad won't get it until the end of the month.

I was hoping we'd get a 12.x point update today with just the security content, but nope.

Soooooooooooooo technically we shouldn't have them online, particularly with non-curated (i.e. Hulu, etc.) content.

Yes and make sure you use extra layers of tape over your iPad camera... 😉😂

 

[ApfelKuchen]

It's an interesting premise, but essentially a fool's errand. The vast majority of OS releases (from every source) contain security fixes, because new security holes are constantly being found. If it's inevitable that the next update will also require a security update....

The only winning move, to borrow a line from the (now old) film, War Games, is not to play.

But we don't stop using our homes because they're vulnerable to break-in - we'd all be living in windowless, poured concrete blockhouses, surrounded by armed guards (literally, your home is a castle). We wouldn't allow our family members out of the house, as the world is a perilous place.

In a sense, refusing to use all computing devices until the next security update is released is like refusing to travel by car until there are no drunk or otherwise dangerous drivers on the road. Certainly, one can live life that way, but the vast majority of us choose to accept the risk in order to have the benefits that come from traveling by car or using our computing devices.