With iOS 8 on the horizon, Apple hopes we'll trust it with some of our most personal and private data, including our health data. But even with the new iOS operating system, the Cupertino-based developers can't seem to do much about the lock screen bugs that have plagued the platform for years.
The latest lock screen bug is one of the simplest and fastest to appear to date. It's quick and easy to perform, taking just a few seconds and making it look like the device was never locked. Fortunately, this bug only allows access to the last app that was open. Of course, it's still quite dangerous as the last app could be one that contains sensitive data.
In case you are one of the Apple fanatics and can still find excuses for bypassing the lock screen, it would be a good idea to consider the following points.
First, Apple customers pay the company good money for their iOS devices. Second, no company with high-end devices would allow a bug like this to persist, and third, Apple is asking us to trust it with more and more of our personal lives. The lock screen vulnerabilities probably show that the company doesn't quite understand the meaning of the word "trust."
If you don't care about your data, what about the data of your employer, or your clients, or your friends stored on your device? Are you saying that they have the same relaxed attitude?
I hope not.
What's also worrying, in the new features of iOS 8, is that the keyboard allows for third-party use. Apple claims that these keyboards won't be able to spy on what we type, but by that logic, the lock screen is supposed to be there to lock the device, and yet it doesn't.
It's all about trust. And trust is the easiest thing in the world to erode.
