One of the many features included in Firmware 3.1 for the iPhone and iPod Touch is anti-phishing for Safari. However, Apple hasn’t given any indication within the upgrade that anti-phishing is even available. Jim Dalrymple of Loop Insight questioned the matter and got an official response from Apple:
“Safari’s anti-phishing database is downloaded while the user charges their phone in order to protect battery life and ensure there aren’t any additional data fees,” Apple spokesman, Bill Evans, told The Loop. “After updating to iPhone OS 3.1 the user should launch Safari, connect to a Wi-Fi network and charge their iPhone with the screen off. For most users this process should happen automatically when they charge their phone.”
While its convenient to have the list downloaded in the background when our iPhones aren’t in use, I don’t see why Apple could have downloaded the data while syncing to iTunes or at least give you some sort of indication of what’s going on. Some have asked why Apple doesn’t reroute address requests to a web based filtering service such as Google’s anti-phishing tech (which the desktop version of Safari uses) but that would add unnecessary traffic requests on a device that’s already trying to be as lean as can be when it comes to surfing to the web. Privacy would be a concern also and having a local cache of a blacklist would be faster and more efficient.
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