Apple hiring new security manager for iPhone

You surely have read about the latest iPhone unlocking hack, released for free earlier this week. Ever since the release of the original iPhone, jailbreaking iPhones has been a cat and mouse game. By exploiting security weaknesses in the locked-down iPhone OS environment, jailbreaking works by overwriting key portions of the operating system to modify its (hostile) behavior towards third party applications. The latest hack effectively removes the chains from around the latest--and more secure, version of the iPhone OS.

In what appears to be an interesting development in the wake of the latest hack, Apple is hiring a security manager for the iPhone platform. The advertisement for the position was first spotted by Network World, and the description goes like this, "lead a team focused on secure booting and installation of the operating system, cryptographic services, partitioning and hardening its internal security domains, and risk analysis of security threats."

Admittedly, it isn't known if this is a new position or a replacement for an existing employee. Of course, perhaps the previous one was made redundant... Regardless, it is clear that Apple isn't going to tolerate the continual breaking of its security, and it is doing whatever it can to eliminate the last of these security bugs from its sacrosanct iPhone platform.

How much longer will it be before Apple tightens security to a point where jailbreaking is no longer possible? Time will tell, but if the endless patches coming out of Microsoft for the Windows operating system are any indication, it probably won't be any time soon.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at Network World

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