Thread: Should I Be Worried?
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Old 04-15-2010, 10:53 AM   #8
Tamara
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Originally Posted by 6charlong View Post
I was reading the book Fatal System Error today and it occurred to me that I haven't seen an antivirus or firewall App for the iPad. I originally thought of the iPad as a book reader and with iBook and Marvel it does that job very well, but I'm finding that I use Safari almost as much as the reader programs so I have to wonder how secure it is.

Of course, the iPad is new but it doesn't seem to take hackers very long to crack hardware, operating systems and/or software. Should I be worried? Apple doesn't say anything (nothing I could find anyway) on their site about iPad security. What do the rest of you think? Will there be security apps coming soon? Or do we need them?
You don't need them. Like the iPhone, you cannot download anything beyond images from Safari on the iPad. The only iPhones that have had security issues are ones that have been hacked/jailbroken.
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