Security what? There's no security on a smartphone.

http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/13/iphone-security-encryption-law-enforc...

All those comments about security... I would have thought high security areas would ban the use of phones all together...

An article from December last year, suggesting you use Dell phones running Android 2.2? Well, have fun with that.

I think the truth is more that governments have trouble peeking in an iPhone than an Android one. Your own users are the biggest security risks and you don't want them to use devices you can't get access to.

You claim "They are allowed modified Android phones", while in reality it is only one model phone, an obscure Dell phone. It is only allowed after it received its modification. This says nothing about iPhone security.

They took an Android phone because it's easy to modify and add their own backdoors to it. So if you're fond of privacy and security never ever use a phone given to you by a government agency.

This says nothing about iPhone security.

They took an Android phone because it's easy to modify and add their own backdoors to it.

So if you're fond of privacy and security never ever use a phone given to you by a government agency.

All those comments about security... I would have thought high security areas would ban the use of phones all together...

So in summary:
* You say you posted an outdated article, although Wikipedia still claims the Dell Venue is the only allowed phone.

* What you claim and what the government does doesn't say anything about iPhone (or any other phone, including Android ones) security.

* Government issued phones don't offer the user any personal security or privacy advantages, only disadvantages.

I conclude it was another piece of anti-Apple FUD once again based on very dodgy logic and strange assumptions.

I reacted to:
Despite the desire to hop on the Apple bandwagon, iPhones are not allowed for usage.

That security?


So it was not I that brought up the iPhone.

All smart phones are tracked in some or multiple ways. The goverment wants to track it their way, so they modified a Dell Venue. This motivates someone, somehow, that iPhones are not secure.

So in summary:
* You say you posted an outdated article, although Wikipedia still claims the Dell Venue is the only allowed phone.

* Government issued phones don't offer the user any personal security or privacy advantages, only disadvantages.

I conclude it was another piece of anti-Apple FUD once again based on very dodgy logic and strange assumptions.

Security is one of the selling points of RIM Blackberries. Government agencies know a hell of a lot more about 'security' than you.

I just object against the notion that because they use an Android based phone Android's security is top notch and the iPhone's thus isn't.

I recently spoke with my Dell account manager and he told me they didn't sell any tablets or phones anymore and when they did even he told customers not to buy them, because they were that bad. But apparently they sell them in the U.S.

Considering no one buys these phones when you do see someone using one (s)he statistically has a high probability of being an important government type.

Either way, we're both just speculating and assuming.