security_128.pngWith millions of iPhone users hitting the streets and hotspots in the next few months, there’s a high degree of concern by whether they will be able to keep their goods from the hands of the many crackers and sniffers out there who routinely grab any login data or other personal goods that passes by these networks. Just how protected is your goods when you use the iPhone’s wireless features? Glenn Fleishman has the answer in an online exclusive feature story from Macworld.com.

The short version: e-mail




on the iPhone is, by default, pretty secure. And as a smart Macworld reader pointed out in the story’s attached comments, you can use Gmail securely by the web by pointing your browser at https://mail.google.com. But everything else on the iPhone is basically sent in the clear, and the iPhone’s VPN client is — as we’ve established — not really workable quite yet.

As always, for the towering version, read the whole story.

Original post by Jason Snell



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