This makes me laugh. It would even if I owned an iPhone. 80% of people don’t understand that popularity comes at the cost of security. Celebrities know this, Twitter and Facebook know this, and mainly Microsoft knows this.

Too many times I’ve heard friends who are Apple fans place “security” in their bullet list of reasons why I should by a Mac. What they don’t realize is that by encouraging people to buy a Mac, they directly affect the security of the product. The more people that own Macs, the more hackers will work to exploit them. Windows most likely has no more real security risks than OSX its just that there are so many Windows machine to hack more hackers pay attention to it, hence more vulnerabilities found. If Linux or OSX were the #1 operation system, then we’d be yelling at Apple for insecure products.

Ever since Adobe announced that Flash is the #1 application, installed on almost every modern personal computer in exhistance, Adobe’s been flooded with vulnerability fights. Silverlight (a Microsoft product) appears more secure, but it’s not popular.

iPhone is now one of the leading phones on the market and the move from phones being simple phone and containing complete Operating Systems that let them do more than just call and text, vulnerabilities are there to exploit. And yes, owning a iPhone puts you just as at risk of being exploited as owning a Windows PC. Soon we’ll be talking about Anti-Virus and Firewall software for our phones and which ones are the least resource intensive…and yes, this does make me sad.