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Uh huh. Because the other phones on the market? When you plug them into a USB port? Impregnable.

Justifying your shortcomings "because everyone else has them" is a recipe for failure, and doesn't get rid of the fact that there's a shortcoming. In this case, a rather significant one.

That's besides the point. I'm not justifying anyone. I'm saying the article is presenting a false choice, between a phone with a known physical security issue and a fictitious phone without one, and claiming that choice should influence enterprise buying.

Right. It's like they're insinuating that there's some mythical smartphone with an HSM FIPS 140-2 L4 compatible crypto chip. Face it, if someone wants the data on your smartphone they can get it.

Like blackberries? http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/1401val...

edit: I'm no expert and read too quickly the level 4 you mentioned, but at least isn't overall level 1 better than iphone's overall level 0?

Not especially. If memory isn't tamper proof and you get a hold of a phone that's on (very likely) then you can just dump the RAM and scour for the encryption key.

@winthrow

Overall Level: 1

Edit: To those who downvote, please read up on the full FIPS 140-2 specification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140-2

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