And yet, in day to day usage, how exactly are these reported iOS vulnerabilities being exploited? If the OS itself is fundamentally insecure, then WHY is it not being exploited?
What do you think jailbreaks are?
Just gonna leave this here:
Feds: Overwhelming majority of mobile malware on Android | Electronista
But ignoring the overall security argument for a minute, Van also seems to have ignored the very section I reposted a second time.
Sorry, dude, but you are NEVER going to convince me that an iPhone that has a complex passcode, Touch ID, Find My iPhone AND activation lock is less secure than a typical Android phone with a gesture lock and that's it.
Did you read my post? I clearly said that I wasn't talking about malware...
The reason you're never going to convince is the same reason you're not going to convince me that the earth is flat in spite of the fact that I personally have never been in orbit.
Saying that the Earth is flat is objectively wrong. Saying that iOS is, without question, more secure, is not. That's a false comparison.
As for your section:
"Fingerprints and any other security methods can conceivably be 'hacked' (not that its usually a practical or realistic "hack") but people who focus on that miss the point badly: your car can still get stolen even with the best alarm; your house can still get robbed even with every door locked and bolted. The idea is to REDUCE YOUR RISK by setting up enough barriers that a thief will go for the easier pickings. Between the passcode, fingerprint, Activation Lock and Find My iPhone, Apple has *successfully* reduced the attractiveness of stealing an iPhone. Without making it one bit harder for users to use. THAT is the point."
I highlighted the very important part of your own words. At no point did I say that anything was impervious to vulnerabilities nor did I ever make the claim that anything else was perfect. Indeed, the only thing companies can do is reduce the entry points for vulnerabilities and plug them when they appear. The same goes for any platform.
I don't understand the defensiveness in the responses here - I'm pointing out the realities of vulnerabilities (which keep getting conflated with either malware or passcode access, neither of which have anything to do with vulnerabilities by the way in and of themselves). I'm not trying to make the claim that any platform is better than any other (despite the repeated attempts to drag Android into the discussion). In fact, all I'm trying to do is shine a light on the reality of the existence of vulnerabilities. You can make the claim that they're not exploited but that's just silly. That's akin to walking into a room with people who have the flu and saying "I haven't taken my flu shot but I don't have the flu so everything is fine." If you want to take that approach, so be it. However, it would seem more prudent to realize the CVE realities of each platform we use, whether or not it's likely or not. As I mentioned above, they are used in the real world - this is how jailbreaks work (again, I'm not talking about malware).
At the base level, I agree that iOS is probably more secure in real world conditions but I'm not going to espouse perfection or a rhetoric of safety. As long as iOS has a long list of vulnerabilities (as with any other platform), there's no point in saying that it is, without question, more secure than anything else.
And again, because my argument doesn't seem to be clear (I'm trying to make this as clear as possible): malware is not the same thing as a vulnerability and iOS has vulnerabilities (whether you choose to acknowledge them or not).