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Is the new iPhone designed for cybersafety?

  • Written by Arun Vishwanath, Associate Professor of Communication, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
imageHow safe is it to use an iPhone?Mesk Photography/Shutterstock.com

As eager customers meet the new iPhone, they’ll explore the latest installment in Apple’s decade-long drive to make sleeker and sexier phones. But to me as a scholar of cybersecurity, these revolutionary innovations have not come without compromises.

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